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verligte
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verligte [fəˈləxtə]
n (in South Africa)
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy)
a.  (during apartheid) a person of any of the White political parties who supported liberal trends in government policy
b.  (as modifier) verligte politics Compare verkrampte
[from Afrikaans (adj), literally: enlightened]
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de Klerk), introduced the terms "verligtes" and "verkramptes" in the political debate of 1967 (thus a little later than 1961 when Huguenet supposedly used this term): "There were verligtes (enlightened ones), liberals in a new Afrikaans guise, who discarded tradition and favored openness and freedom, also in the field of race relations.
Athol Fugard's Exits and Entrances: the Playwright, the Actor and the ... by Keuris, Marisa / Journal of Literary Studies
Boetman en die swanesang van die verligtes (Little brother and the swan song of the liberals).
Witnessing trauma in post-apartheid South Africa: the question of ... by Van Der Watt, Liese / African Arts
 
 
 
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