Opening Mens Eyes

'We have to open men's eyes, not tear them out', said nineteenth century Russian liberal thinker Aleksandr Herzen.

It was a belief that Peter Brown, a white South African liberal living in an illiberal country, took to heart, as he made his contribution to the struggle against apartheid. He paid a price. Imprisoned by the government during the 1960 State of Emergency, and 'banned' from public life for a decade soon after the infamous Johannesburg Park Station bomb in 1964, Brown nevertheless lived to see the vindication of his life's work.