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 …
Leon Marais Louw has been considered the face of the free-market movement in South Africa since the 1970s. In a December 1987 biographical article by journalist Stan Kennedy in the Johannesburg paper The Star, Louw was described as “the driving force …
Michael Conway O’Dowd (27 February 1930, Johannesburg – 15 March 2006) was a South African businessman and classical liberal intellectual known for his 1966 essay which became known as “the O’Dowd Thesis”. In the essay, O’Dowd argued that South Africa’s …
Edgar Harry Brookes (1897–1979) was a Liberal Party senator in Parliament for 15 years, representing the blacks of Zululand (Brookes 1956, 190) between 1937 and 1952. He was national chairman of the Liberal Party between 1963 and 1968 (Webb 1979, …
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894-1948) was regarded as the leader of South Africa’s fledgling liberal political movement in the 1930s and 1940s. He had been a veteran politician, but was also “convinced that prevailing South African racial attitudes and policies could …
Federated Chamber of Industries, 1986 (De Villiers et al. 1992, 401–406) PREAMBLE WHEREAS WE, members of the South African Chamber of Business and of business generally in South Africa; Mindful of our important role in promoting human rights and the …
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 …
