rand and Professor J. Leighton of the RandAfrikaans University took a very stern view. Atuniversities we have only three years in which toacquaint students with English literature. It isa desperately short time, even in a single sub-ject honours degree, and if Shakespeare andMilton do not infuse an enthusiasm for literatureand a deeper perception of experience, an inferiorwork with 'local interest', will not do the trick.Leighton summed it up succinctly:I know of no poet whose work surpassesthe work of Spenser and Dryden (both ofwhom I omit for lack of space), and whosework could with justice replace the works ofthose whom I feel I must prescribe if I am toachieve my aim of providing a picture ofsome of the great moments in English Cultureas it is reflected in creative writing.6They also felt that a University was perhapsnot the place to stimulate creative writing orstimulate an indigenous literary culture. Segalfelt such an attempt erroneous and artificial andremarked:Neither Shakespeare nor Plomer nor Keatsnor Pauline Smith went to a University. De-partments of English are of a pretty recentfoundation, yet, somehow, English literaturegot itself written.7In some ways it was a sombre but correctconclusion. Nevertheless at the conference viewswere aired and information imparted; this canonly be of value. Somehow South AfricanEnglish literature will have to get itself written.REFERENCES1. South African Writing in English and its place in School and University: Proceedings of the Conference of theEnglish Academy of Southern Africa held at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, 7-llth July, 1969. English Studiesin Africa, 1970, 13, 1-300. The poetry readings which the writer did not attend have also been published andare reviewed below, pp. XXXXX.2. IBID., 182.3. IBID., 209.4. IBID., 127-8 quoting from Ophir, 6. be. 1968, 16, and One Life, Cape Town, Purnell, p. 11.5. Proceedings, 199-200. Both volumes are published by the Afrikaans Pers Boekhandel, and a translation SelectedPoems has been published by Jonathan Cape.6. IBID., 187.7. IBID., 179.University of RhodesiaD. F. MIDDLETONConference of the South African Instituteof International Affairs, 1970The conference was held in June 1970 at theUniversity of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburgand was devoted to 'The Impact on InternationalRelations of the Population Explosion'.The subjects of discussion ranged widely, but ofparticular interest to readers of Zamhezia was theprovocative paper on the economic and otherimplications of population growth in Africa, givenby Professor G. M. E. Leistner of the Universityof South Africa. He concluded that the most ex-plosive factor is the increasing number of unem-ployed and relatively poor young men and theUniversity of Rhodesiatendency for political and social disputes toarrange themselves around tribal interests. Onthe one hand, in urban areas tribal differencestend to become obscured and so create the begin-ning of a real proletariat. On the other hand,differences between the relatively well-off Africanand his poorer compatriot tend to be blurred bythe fact of the latter's participation, throughfamily, and tribal loyalties, in the former'swealth. The political implications of these factorsis being accentuated by the increasing individuali-zation of the urban African and an 'excellentrevolutionary potential' is being created.F. CLIFFORD-VAUGHAN83