- "verkramptes" and "
verligtes".
Verkramptes were
members of the party's right-wing who
opposed any
deviation from the
rigid apartheid structure.
Verligtes took a somewhat...
- him
Minister of
Defence as
successor to
Magnus Malan. Allegedly, the "
verligte Nat" ("liberal" or "enlightened" NP politician) couldn't win the respect...
-
ruling National Party. The
party hoped to be a
rallying point for the
verligte (enlightened)
Nationalists who had
grown disillusioned with the hardline...
- constituency, an
Afrikaner stronghold.
Though increasingly identified as a
verligte (a
member of the party's more
liberal wing) over the next two
decades he...
- van die
verligtes in die
Nasionale Party in die
politieke ontmagtiging van die Afrikaner, 1966–1994 [The Role of the
enlightened ones (
verligtes) in the...
- of Dr.
Hendrik Verwoerd. In his speech, De
Klerk distinguished between verligte, verkrampte, and
positiewe ("positive") Afrikaners. That
threefold division...
- for his hometown, Stellenbosch. He was a
member of the NP's
progressive verligte ("enlightened") caucus,
which supported reforming the
apartheid system...
-
Ginwala of the ANC. The Mail &
Guardian said that
Ranchod was
among the "
verligte" (Afrikaans for enlightened,
meaning progressive)
ranks of the NP. In early...
- in
obscurity in 1990. Nevertheless, his
actions did
contribute to the
verligte split in the
National Party,
which had
culminated in F. W. de Klerk's speech...
- the
ruling National Party and
merged into it by 1980, and the
growing verligte ("enlightened")
tendency within the
National Party itself espoused expanded...
