Paper presented at the April 1972 National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) seminar which discusses the background to NUSAS and analyses the dilemma facing students as individuals and as part of a student body.
The striking diversity of the South African population is the result not only of comparatively recent migrations but of a long process of which but a small part is known to historians. Of the whole process, perhaps the last three or four centuries have been adequately documented.
