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In the 1960s the National Party (NP) government established two new universities for whites. These
were the dual-medium University of Port Elizabeth (UPE), which opened in 1965, and the Randse
Afrikaanse Universiteit (RAU), which opened in 1968. In this paper I describe these initiatives in the
1960s and argue that they form the third phase of the NP government's policies regarding university
education. This phase is distinguished from the earlier two phases by the processes through which the
policy emerged, and the goals of the policy. In conclusion, I question the implications of the history of
the third phase of apartheid university policies for the analysis of the goals of apartheid in the 1960s
more generally.