The economist Ludwig Maurits Lachmann, well-known for Capital and Its Structure (1956) and The Market as an Economic Process (1986), taught at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, between 1948 and 1972, and was president of the …
The Rational Standard (RS) is an online news and libertarian opinion platform that describes itself as representing “a provocative mixture of analysis and news commentary which provides an alternative to the mainstream media. Unlike the mainstream, RS embraces and is …
William Harold Hutt was a renowned economist from Britain who came to work in South Africa at the University of Cape Town in 1928. He became dean of the Faculty of Commerce in 1931. His best-known contribution to South African …
The Black Sash was founded in 1955 during the constitutional crisis as the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League, “an organization of white women to promote respect for the constitution and protest the loss of voting rights for Coloureds” (Michigan …
The Free Market Foundation (FMF) was founded in August 1975, and its inaugural congress took place in March 1977 (Swanepoel 1976b). The FMF’s goal was and remains “to encourage a free market economy in South Africa” and stop the trend …
The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) was established on 9 May 1929 by John David Rheinallt Jones, Charles Loram, Howard Pim, Edgar Harry Brookes, J. du Plessis, D. D. T. Jabavu, J. H. Nicholson, and J. G. van …
The United South African National Party, known as the United Party (UP), had traditionally been the political home of English-speaking South Africans, and, as a result that of liberal South Africans, as the bulk of liberals had been English. While …
Leon Louw, Executive Director of the Free Market Foundation, described the Democratic Alliance (DA) as the “more pro-market, capitalist, classical liberal” political party in South Africa (Louw 2011). Indeed, shortly after the Democratic Alliance was created in 2000, it included …
Delegates at the 1988 Federal Congress of the Progressive Federal Party were eager for closer cooperation with two new independent parliamentary groups, the Independent Party of Denis Worrall and the National Democratic Movement of Wynand Malan (Swart 1991, 198).
While the Liberal Party was multi-racial, with most members black (Hughes 1994, 38), the Progressive Party consciously decided to direct its attention at the white electorate where political power legally resided, in order to convince that electorate to shun prejudice …
