Liberals Against Apartheid

The Liberal Party of South Africa was founded in 1953 to promote nonracial democratic liberalism in opposition to white supremacist apartheid. Under Alan Paton, it quickly moved into the extra-parliamentary field and won considerable black support, competing with Communism and black nationalism. Growing influence brought heavy government attack, and the 'banning' of nearly 50 of its leaders, black and white. Despite forced dissolution in 1968, the Liberals' ideas have triumphed over those of left and right in the 'new South Africa'.

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RANDOLPH VIGNE

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List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - A Hundred Years On - The Years of Ferment - Yielding Place to New - 'It Will Work Again' - Towards the Voteless - '... et dona ferentes' - Drawing-room Politics? - A Breathing Space - Beyond Parliament - Politics to the People - Other Battlefields - The Turning Point - In the Crucible - The Convention Road - The Fateful Decision - Transkei Victory - The Firing Line - Partings of the Way - The End of the Road - The Surviving Ideal - Notes - Index