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In respect of these three obligations, incumbent upon all Liberals; it is obvious that the future of Liberalism in South Africa is very bright; for if it were not, the opponents of Liberty would not be trying to steal Liberal values and policies while denigrating Liberalism. It is also obvious that the future success of Liberalism depends entirely on Liberals having the gumption to stand up and defend, explain and advocate for Liberalism; at every opportunity.
The question is how do you enable and capacitate a cohort of Liberal activists; who are able to defend, explain and advocate the principles of Liberalism? Within Liberal organisations, internal training programs have worked well over the last 20 years; but in the broad mainstream of the public space; the people have taken ownership of Liberalism in part without a full understanding of the interconnectedness of all of the principles of Liberalism; such that some may believe that they are Liberal just because they are open minded, but are not in fact Liberal if they favour state-centric economic development.
The challenge for Liberalism is to co-ordinate the activities of all of the Liberal organisations and to ensure that the broad ensembles of Liberal activists are all “on the same message”. This is no easy task and; short of utilising an Open University for Liberal Democracy, is largely impractical.
Where then will the leadership for this Liberal revolution arise? I say that it starts with each and every single one of us as an individual. Surely that is the Liberal way of solving this problem?
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