Dear Mr Anstead,

Yes,in fact, that is correct. My assertion earlier in this thread that he was "never asked to leave" was in response to assertions that he was thrown out because of ENDORSING the apartheid system, which was something one of the participants had speculated on.   
However, I would still point out that whatever views Kenneth expressed on the subject in the 1950s, he nevertheless failed to include the black population of South Africa in any of his documentaries or histories on it. That is why I said that I sometimes suspected him of indeed being an apologist for the system, and it was a very sore point between my family and him, resulting in many raucous arguments and brawls. But it did not in the end ever estrange us from him, because we realised that his innate compassion and humanity were the truer reflection of who he was, whatever soapbox he happened to be standing on. He was capable of a great many contradictions, and I learnt not to take his political stances too seriously. He was a man with an insatiable appetite for romanticising causes that to most other people were insufferable, even repugnant, particularly within the SOuth AFrican context. I have admitted that. But I have also added - just as insistently - that that is only one aspect of who he was.
I found the emotional truth of Kenneth's autobiography to lie in its tone, and its wistfulness, rather than in its outbursts and proclamations.