The September 29 issue of The Observer, a London weekly reports another startling cease in South Africa. The account is as follows:
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Dr. Neville Alexander, a prominent non-white scholar who was detained in Cape Town under the 90-day detention clause in July is to be tried for sabotage. He will appear ‘in the Supreme Court on November 4.
Dr. Alexander was committed for trial at a brief hearing in a magistrates' court. Bail was refused.
In 1958 Dr. Alexander became the first non-white from South Africa to be awarded an Alexander von Humbolt bursary for postgraduate stucy at a West German university. He took a lMaster's degree and in 1961 was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy for a thesis on the German dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann.