362pp., illus., map, paperback, New Edition, Johannesburg, (1996) 2022
Mervyn Shear on how the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) adapted to the political and social developments in South Africa under apartheid.
Includes a new preface by Firoz Cachalia, a student leader at the university in the 1980s and now Adjunct Professor in the School of Law and Director of the Mandela Institute.
Mervyn Shear was Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand from 1983 to 1990. He was an Emeritus Professor of Wits University and Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape.