- Title
- Not an astute political thinker or visionary
- Creator
- Maylam, Paul
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2008
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/449993
- Identifier
- vital:74874
- Identifier
- https://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/hist/v53n1/19.pdf
- Description
- Colin Eglin served as member of parliament for thirty-three years (1958-1961, 1974- 2004), under seven prime ministers or presidents (from Strijdom to Mbeki), and under five different constitutions (the Union Constitution, the Republican, the Tricameral, the 1994 Interim, and the final 1996 Constitution). Moreover during his parliamentary career he belonged to no less than six political parties (the United Party, the Progressive Party, the Progressive Reform Party, the Progressive Federal Party, the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Alliance). This is not to suggest at all that Eglin was one of those party-hopping opportunists that have come to bedevil South African politics in recent years. Far from it – Eglin only once switched parties, being one of the original “Prog” MPs who left the decaying, ever more conservative United Party in 1959 and became one of the founding MPs of the Progressive Party. Thereafter all his changing party affiliations would result from mergers and realignments in parliamentary opposition politics – realignments that always kept the “Progs” at the core.
- Format
- 3 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Historia
- Relation
- Maylam, P., 2008. Not an astute political thinker or visionary. Historia vol.53 n.1 Durban 2008
- Relation
- Historia volume 53 number 1 1 3 2008 2309-8392
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Maylam, Paul (Distinguished Fellow Emeritus Professor)
RU Department of History
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