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. …
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 …
The post-Apartheid regime’s determination to carry out land reform came to a head in 2018, when Parliament adopted a resolution that committed the institution to amending the Constitution to allow for the expropriation of private property, mostly rural land, without …
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 …
