'Survival in justice': Apartheid and the Schalk Pienaar-Dr A.P. Treurnicht broedertwis, 1968-1978

Schalk Pienaar, a leading Afrikaner journalist, encouraged soul-searching amongst Afrikaners about their treatment of the black majority, while urging the necessity to adapt to a modern and changing world if they wanted to survive in Africa. Dr A.P. Treurnicht, an influential ultra-conservative establishment figure, and a future leader of the right-wing Conservative Party, on the other hand believed with evangelical fervour that any departure from the system of racial separation, however trivial, would endanger Afrikaner survival. The result was a long and bitter feud with Pienaar which had a profound influence on the apartheid state as it did much to discredit Treurnicht in the eyes of many Afrikaners, preparing them to accept political change.