The South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR) was established on 9 May 1929 by John David Rheinallt Jones, Charles Loram, Howard Pim, Edgar Harry Brookes, J. du Plessis, D. D. T. Jabavu, J. H. Nicholson, and J. G. van …
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 …
