In No Uncertain Terms: A South African Memoir
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This entry contains material that some people may find disturbing.Fighting for the Rule of Law
During my first few years as the lone Prog M. P., I found myself confronted by a series of vicious laws designed to undermine civil rights and to intensify discrimination against blacks. In pursuit of Verwoerd’s mad dream of Grand Apartheid, the government introduced one law after the other extending discriminatory…
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