Abstract
The Liberal Party’s valediction announced its destruction ‘by a senseless act of totalitarian legislation … South Africa is being thrust still more deeply into the darkness of racial separation, bitterness and ever increasing tension.’ Its story should end there. The statement went on, however: ‘South Africa will not suffer forever under the yoke of Nationalism’ and it concluded with the defiant: ‘Liberty shall rise again!’1
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Vigne, R. (1997). The Surviving Ideal. In: Liberals against Apartheid. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230374737_20
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