When Apartheid ended, the political paradigm in South Africa changed completely, especially as it related to liberals. Liberals participated in the negotiations for a post-Apartheid constitution during a time that seemed like a moment of liberal victory, but soon thereafter …
In the 1980s, there occurred what Wentzel (1995, vii) referred to as a “liberal slideaway,” the consequences of which South Africa still experiences today. Liberals had warned that the indignity of Apartheid policy would eventually lead to a violent reaction. …
One factor behind the desire to disenfranchise blacks (which took place in 1936) and the Cape coloureds (in the 1950s) is to be found in the early history of the Cape Colony, where the non-racial franchise originated in South Africa. …
There was a hope among black South Africans generally and liberals in particular that whatever party governed, the Second World War and its elevation of the notion of human rights regardless of race, would lead to a loosening of domestic …
Liberalism in South Africa developed most in the Cape Colony, which later became the Cape Province. British influence was always greatest at the Cape, which was home to most English-speaking South Africans, who have always been somewhat cosmopolitan compared to …
