Where were the Verkramptes? The old Conservatives of which I was a member? Nowhere. The fight for Afrikaans was led by the "liberal jingoes" such as Van Zyl Slabbert, Hermann Giliomee and Breyten ...

Needless to say that this arrangement did not suit the Jingoes and " humanitarians " in England ; so the British Government decided to dispatch Sir Francis de Winton as a special envoy to look into ...