Counselling under Apartheid: An Interview with Andrew Swart

This interview conducted in August 1989 with Andrew Swart, Head of the Counselling and Careers Unit at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg covers the following areas: (a) the pressures faced by counsellors working in South Africa, (b) the Society for Student Counselling and its internal politics, and (c) the work of counsellors in South Africa as agents of change and the implications of this work. Much has happened in South Africa since August 1989 and the interview is followed by a briefpostcript written by Andrew Swart.