Editorial reminiscences on the occasion of the SAJS 120th anniversary (1973–2008)

s international reputation politically had reached an especially low ebb, but Kingwill had the insight and resolve to invite someone with unusual international clout to see for himself how South Africa's widespread and growing academic boycotts might be addressed.So Maddox, at his own expense, came and visited selected universities, as well as the CSIR, to gauge academic attitudes to the politics of the day.He concluded that research scientists in particular should be supported because he considered that, in the main, they were a force for good and would be needed if the country ever threw off its apartheid