Despite its inherent appeal to nationalism, the African National Congress (ANC), which rules South Africa today, was a largely liberal organization from the time of its founding in 1912 to roughly the end of the 1940s. It advocated the removal …
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 …
The Liberal Party was founded in 1953 on the tenet that “non-racialism is the only sure foundation for a multi-racial society of such complexity” as South Africa. It sought the non-racial extension of “full political, social, and individual rights to …
A report prepared for the Progressive Party of South Africa by a Commission of Experts Chairman: Mr Donald B Molteno QC with foreword by Dr Jan Steytler MP, Leader of the Progressive Party Molteno Report Volume 1 Interim Report of …
