Everybody knows that doughty but ineffectual little bands, such as Novelist Alan (Cry, the Beloved Country) Paton's Liberal Party, have long opposed the South African government's all-out segregation policy. Now, for the first time since apartheid was officially proclaimed South Africa's "way of life" twelve years ago, members of the ruling Boer Afrikaner National Party are beginning to speak and fight against it.
It was one of the country's most respected old Boers who broke the façade of Nationalist unity. Henry Allan Fagan, 70, until last year chief justice of the Union's...