Forty-five year apart: Confronting the legacy of racial discrimination at the University of Cape Town
| dc.contributor.author | Perez, G | |
| dc.contributor.author | London, L | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-03-19T13:12:57Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-03-19T13:12:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-18T08:38:58Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | One of the many consequences of South Africa's history of racial discrimination is the impact it had on the training of black medical students. Blacks, and particularly those classified as African under apartheid’s racial classification, were restricted from entry to medical schools by a permit system introduced in 1959 and only rescinded in 1986.1 In 1967, the ratio of white doctors trained per million of the white population in South Africa was almost 100 times higher than the equivalent ratio for Africans,2 and although whites constituted less than 20% of the population, 83% of all doctors and 94% of all specialists in South Africa in 1985 were white.3 Not only were blacks largely excluded from training opportunities but, for those gaining access to medical schools, the conditions under which they trained were extremely onerous, and lacked the educational, recreational, accommodation and social opportunities afforded their white colleagues.1,2,4,5 A comment by a leading academic in 1988 on the state of medical training could have been applied to almost all of South Africa’s medical schools during apartheid: ‘. . . in spite of our much vaunted Academic Freedom, our policy and practice is heavily influenced, if not determined, by . . . an oppressive apartheid ideology. Why else have we produced so few African doctors; why else does the University . . . not have a satisfactory teaching hospital or residence for its [African] students?’ | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Perez, G., & London, L. (2004). Forty-five year apart: Confronting the legacy of racial discrimination at the University of Cape Town. <i>South African Medical Journal</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27684 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Perez, G, and L London "Forty-five year apart: Confronting the legacy of racial discrimination at the University of Cape Town." <i>South African Medical Journal</i> (2004) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27684 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Perez, G., & London, L. (2004). Forty-five years apart-confronting the legacy of racial discrimination at the University of Cape Town: original article. South African Medical Journal, 94(9), p-764. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Perez, G AU - London, L AB - One of the many consequences of South Africa's history of racial discrimination is the impact it had on the training of black medical students. Blacks, and particularly those classified as African under apartheid’s racial classification, were restricted from entry to medical schools by a permit system introduced in 1959 and only rescinded in 1986.1 In 1967, the ratio of white doctors trained per million of the white population in South Africa was almost 100 times higher than the equivalent ratio for Africans,2 and although whites constituted less than 20% of the population, 83% of all doctors and 94% of all specialists in South Africa in 1985 were white.3 Not only were blacks largely excluded from training opportunities but, for those gaining access to medical schools, the conditions under which they trained were extremely onerous, and lacked the educational, recreational, accommodation and social opportunities afforded their white colleagues.1,2,4,5 A comment by a leading academic in 1988 on the state of medical training could have been applied to almost all of South Africa’s medical schools during apartheid: ‘. . . in spite of our much vaunted Academic Freedom, our policy and practice is heavily influenced, if not determined, by . . . an oppressive apartheid ideology. Why else have we produced so few African doctors; why else does the University . . . not have a satisfactory teaching hospital or residence for its [African] students?’ DA - 2004 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Medical Journal LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2004 T1 - Forty-five year apart: Confronting the legacy of racial discrimination at the University of Cape Town TI - Forty-five year apart: Confronting the legacy of racial discrimination at the University of Cape Town UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27684 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27684 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Perez G, London L. Forty-five year apart: Confronting the legacy of racial discrimination at the University of Cape Town. South African Medical Journal. 2004; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27684. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Division of Family Medicine | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | South African Medical Journal | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.samj.org.za | |
| dc.title | Forty-five year apart: Confronting the legacy of racial discrimination at the University of Cape Town | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | |
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