Towards an open plural society

This document is intended as an aid to the study of the report of the Spro-cas Political Commission, South Africa's Political Alternatives, which was published in June 1973. The report has aroused considerable interest as a contribution to political thought in South Africa, and many discussion and study groups have paid it attention. This book is in two parts. The first is a schematic summary of the contents of the report, prepared by Prof. F. van Zyl Slabbert, professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand and a member of the Spro-cas Social Commission. The second is essentially an abbreviation or condensation of the argument of the report, written by Mr Patrick Laurence, a senior journalist on the Johannesburg Star.