Ludwig Lachmann

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 …

William Hutt

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 …

Black Sash

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 …

United Party

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 …

Democratic Alliance

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 …

Democratic Party

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).

Progressive Party

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 …