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Article: Liberals Against Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party of South Africa, 1953-1968.(Review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- April 1, 2000
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Liberals Against Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party of South Africa, 1953-1968, by Randolph Vigne. London, England, MacMillan Press, 1997. xi, 268 pp. $65.00.
This book is one of the more important additions to the growing literature of insider accounts about the anti-apartheid straggle. Vigne, one of the younger, more radical members of the Liberal Party, who served as national deputy-chairman, was banned in 1963 and escaped into exile the following year. He provides a detailed, nuanced, and thoroughly researched history of this party that played an important part in the straggle against apartheid but is not accorded the recognition it deserves because ...