verligadj.

1968 Economist 17 Aug. 32/2 The real object was to strengthen Mr Vorster in the ideological dispute that has arisen within his party in recent months between the verligte (‘enlightened’) wing and the verkramptes (that is, literally, the cramped ones).

1969 Sunday Times (Johannesburg) 24 Aug. 25 The odd thing about the whole affair is that the word ‘verlig’ should become an embarrassment to the Nationalists... There must be few countries where it is an insult to be called ‘enlightened’.

1969 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 25 Sept. 17/3 Verlig long before it was comparatively easy to be so, he condemned arrogant racialism or nationalism wherever he found it.

1970 Times 19 Aug. 8/4 It is not just non-aligned countries such as Tanzania, Zambia or Yugoslavia, which are benefiting from the new spirit of goodwill emanating from Peking. China's verligte policies have even percolated as far as London.

1971 Leader (Durban) 7 May 6/5 With a so-called outward-looking policy, the Government is beginning to see things in better light. It has shaken itself of some of the old die-hard Calvinistic verkramptes and is able to look at the world at large a little verlig.

1974 Argus (Cape Town) 2 Aug. 3/2 The United Party is believed to have irrevocably committed itself to a more boldly verligte political stance.

1974 Rand Daily Mail (Johannesburg) 30 Nov. 1/1 This reasoning has now become an excellent excuse for talking verlig and acting verkramp.

1977 Cape Times 10 Oct. 3/4 The vast majority of Nationalist voters are a lot more verlig than they think and support the need for change in South Africa.

1981 Guardian 14 Dec. 6/5 The Verligte or enlightened faction of his party.

1967 Race Relations News Sept. 7/4 The verligtes–verkramptes controversy must have raised in many minds the hope of a change of outlook in influential South African circles.

1969 Guardian Weekly 24 July 14 If the verkramptes of Louis Stoffberg and Dr Herzog win the day, against Mr Vorster's verligtes and their good neighbour policy towards black Africa, it will be a useful gain for Peking.

1970 News/Check 29 May 9 People who later on were to become known as verligtes sided with Silbersteins; the verkramptes summed up the book as sinful.

1976 Times 26 June 5/4 The increasingly vocal Verligtes in the universities.

1980 Economist 21 June (S. Afr. Suppl.) 6/1 To the more radical verligtes who make up his praetorian guard, a sort of strategy is clear.