FORMER University of the Witwatersrand vice-chancellor Guerino Bozzoli has died of cancer, aged 87. Bozzoli, vice-chancellor during the turbulent Sixties and Seventies, was best known for his resistance to government plans to bar black students, and to clampdowns on student protest.
Wits University’s reputation reached its height under Bozzoli, who endured several face-to-face confrontations with prime minister John Vorster in defence of academic freedom.
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