The Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) in a report to be relased today charges that Harvard's much-publicized South African aid program has serious flaws and may ultimately bolster the apartheid regime rather than the 22 million Blacks in that country.

SASC claims in the 48-page report that Harvard officials assigned to administer a $1 million fund set up to benefit South African Blacks have not contacted organizations representing Black South Africans, have failed to solicit the opinions of Black South Africans at Harvard, and has offered to place interns with institutions of dubious value to the Blacks of that nation.

Written by students who head the divestment movement at Harvard, the report states, "Black South Africans with a strong claim to representing real constituencies have all mentioned in their comments on the Internship Program that they see the program as a way of avoiding divestment and other sanctions against South Africa."

The activists urged Harvard, "to suspend this mistaken program, to sell its stock in companies that do business in South Africa, and then to reopen the question of other kinds of assistance."

But the chairman of the committee charged with administering the internship program, Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, yesterday called the report premature and "destructive," saying it is based on "misinformation" about Harvard's efforts in this area.

Divestment Alternative

In an open letter this September responding to the worsening racial conflict in South Africa, President Derek C. Bok set aside the $1 million fund and established a South Africa aid program of which the internship program isa part.

Bok stressed in his letter, considered his mostactive response to continuing oppression in SouthAfrica since becoming president, that debate overHarvard's $400 million investments in SouthAfrica-related companies should not precludeeducational initiatives like the internshipprogram.

"Every South African Black who recieves aneducational experience that would not otherwise beavailable has an opportunity to contributesomething of value to his or her people," Bokwrote in the report.

Yet the SASC report claims that the committeeBok appointed to accomplish this goal has selectedimproper educational institutions for Harvardinterns because:

.the committee began planning without the inputof any Black South Africans;

.Black South Africans have never met with thecommittee as a whole and recommendations by BlackSouth Africans at Harvard against the program werenot acted upon;

.the institutions which did offer to acceptinterns are either connected to the Pretoriagovernment, run by oppressive corporations, or donot serve many Blacks;

.Harvard failed to send requests to prominentSouth African organizations known to be workingagainst apartheid.

"At present, the flaws of the program arestructural and can only be addresed by completelyredesigning the program, starting with a lengthlyconsultation with Black South Africans, atHarvard, elsewhere in the United States, and aboveall in South Africa," the report concludes.