SOYA condemns the idea of the governments intention to transfer administrative control of the Medical School, Durban from the University of Natal to the Univdersity of South Africa, and further condemns the whole system of oppression in dividing the people by colour and now in education as well.

With the official opening of the Sultan Technical College, the members of the College Council had taken a decision to prohibit the African students from attending classes and were refused admission to the College itself.