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I found the attached copy of a document discussing the operations of the Urban Foundations. The most interesting part is that “The African e-Journals Project has digitized full text of articles of eleven social science and humanities journals. This item is from the digital archive maintained by Michigan State University Library. Find more at: http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/africanjournals/”
Looking further in their archive, I found copies of materials written by Blade Nzimande, Neville Alexander, Bernard Magubane, etc..
If we just look at Bernard Magubane’s document “The Political Economy of the South African Revolution , see attachment, you can understand why American students can be radicalised. Then looking into his background at https://www.sahistory.org.za/people/professor-bernard-magubane, it states;
“He became politically involved and joined the African National Congress (ANC), attending ANC rallies and meetings. He was an avid reader of The Guardian and The New Age, newspapers run mainly by members of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA).”
“There he earned a BA and an honours degree and then a Masters degree in Sociology. In 1961, he managed to get another fellowship to study at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) in the United States of America (USA). After completing another Masters degree he went on to do his PhD at UCLA. During this time, he became one of the founders of the anti-Apartheid movement in the United States of America.
In 1967, Professor Magubane moved to Zambia where he taught at the University of Zambia and became a member of the ANC community in Lusaka. Oliver Tambo stayed with the Magubane family for some time and they became close friends. At the university, he worked closely with the ANC and the South African Communist Party (SACP) stalwart, Professor Jack Simons, who also taught there.
Magubane later recalled that, ‘We used to meet at [Jack Simons’] house every Sunday to discuss South Africa. In fact, almost everything that I had learned for my PhD, I had to unlearn from the lectures he gave… That's when I became interested in the political economy of race, and that's when I really started taking notes for the book, which I would work on when I went back to the United States in 1970. ””
“He returned to the United States where he continued his academic career, teaching in universities in both California and then in Connecticut.”
“After returning to South Africa in 1994, Professor Magubane joined the Human Sciences Research Council as a Chief Research Specialist. In September 2000, he was appointed project leader and Director of the South African Democracy Education Trust, a project organization set up to study the political history of South Africa since 1960.”