" One of the architects of our democracy": Colin Eglin, the Progressive Federal Party and the leadership of the official parliamentary opposition, 1977-1979 and 1986-1987

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dc.contributor.authorMouton, F. A.
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-21T06:44:32Z
dc.date.available2016-07-21T06:44:32Z
dc.date.issued2015-06
dc.description.abstractThe political career of Colin Eglin, leader of the Progressive Federal Party (PFP) and the official parliamentary opposition between 1977‑1979 and 1986‑1987, is proof that personality matters in politics and can make a difference. Without his driving will and dogged commitment to the principles of liberalism, especially his willingness to fight on when all seemed lost for liberalism in the apartheid state, the Progressive Party would have floundered. He led the Progressives out of the political wilderness in 1974, turned the PFP into the official opposition in 1977, and picked up the pieces after Frederik van Zyl Slabbert’s dramatic resignation as party leader in February 1986. As leader of the parliamentary opposition, despite the hounding of the National Party, he kept liberal democratic values alive, especially the ideal of incremental political change. Nelson Mandela described him as, “one of the architects of our democracy”.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.citationMouton, F. A. (2015). " One of the architects of our democracy": Colin Eglin, the Progressive Federal Party and the leadership of the official parliamentary opposition, 1977-1979 and 1986-1987. Journal for Contemporary History, 40(1), 1-22.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0285-2422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2415-0509 (online)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11660/3556
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherFaculty of the Humanities, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.rights.holderFaculty of the Humanities, University of the Free Stateen_ZA
dc.subjectColin Eglinen_ZA
dc.subjectProgressive Partyen_ZA
dc.subjectProgressive Federal Partyen_ZA
dc.subjectLiberalismen_ZA
dc.subjectApartheiden_ZA
dc.subjectNational Partyen_ZA
dc.subjectFrederik van Zyl Slabberten_ZA
dc.subjectLeader of the official parliamentary oppositionen_ZA
dc.title" One of the architects of our democracy": Colin Eglin, the Progressive Federal Party and the leadership of the official parliamentary opposition, 1977-1979 and 1986-1987en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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