Titlebook: Liberals against Apartheid; A History of the Lib Randolph Vigne Book 1997 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 19

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,‘It Will Work Again’,typified by Donald Molteno, Native Representative MP 1937–48, dedicated supporter of the underdog and passionate believer in the non-racial, liberal system his grandfather, as Prime Minister, had introduced to the Cape colony with Responsible Government in 1872. His leader in Parliament, Margaret Ba

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Drawing-room Politics?,uly 1954 of his hopes of a parliamentary alliance with the Labour and Federal Parties. Having discussed co-operation with Leo Lovell, one of Labour’s three surviving MPs, and found him positive on the subject though deeply depressed about the future of parliamentary government under the Nationalists

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A Breathing Space,ngress members were arrested in the Gandhi Library hall, Durban, under an antiquated local notice, for taking part in ‘an assembly of Natives’. The meeting was to launch a fund for the defence of the 156 men and women arrested the morning before. This was the beginning, with similar initiatives in J

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Politics to the People,. The preoccupation then had been with policy making, internal quarrels between old Liberals and new, accompanied by a wary circling round the Congress Alliance, links and friendships growing nevertheless. The parliamentary rearguard action against the onslaught of apartheid legislation, with press

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The Turning Point,d meet representatives of Parliamentary parties only, and the fact that the Ballingers were still in Parliament (Rubin had resigned his seat before leaving for an academic post in Ghana and Stanford was already a Progressive) was brushed aside.. Fears were real that Macmillan, meeting only tribal ch

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In the Crucible,y 30 March 1960, with the proclamation of a State of Emergency. The harsh terms of the Public Safety Act introduced in 1953 to crush the Defiance Campaign were invoked. The operation of such repressive legislation revealed again the Nationalist government’s capacity for Nazi-style thuggery.