STELLENBOSCH, South Africa - Along the wide, tree-lined avenues of Stellenbosch University, a quiet war is being waged. At this bastion of the Afrikaner people - the white South Africans blamed for the horrors of race-based apartheid rule - a generation of students too young to remember the racial strife that nearly tore their country apart is struggling to define itself.

You can hear it in the angry Afrikaans-language music on the campus radio station, in the lecture halls where professors still teach primarily in Afrikaans, in the frustrated voices of graduating students who say the tarnished legacy of their elders makes it impossible for them to find jobs.