Appendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… victory of the National Party(NP), with its platform of apartheid, during the 1948 elections. Though it did not … wartime Premier and a famous international figure, lost his seat, Standerton, to a relatively unknown NP candidate. … cultural current in Europe found an echo in Cape Town. The work of the world’s leading progressive playwrights could …