Address by John Kane-Berman, chief executive of the South African Institute of Race Relations (IRR), to a "Freedom Seminar" held in conjunction with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Johannesburg, 17 October 2013.
Let me congratulate the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom on the 50th anniversary of its international activities, and on all its work in South Africa and elsewhere. Friedrich Naumann died 10 years before the South African Institute of Race Relations (the IRR) was established. But the foundation named in his honour has helped us, and many others, to promote the civic education he believed in, especially with "ideas on liberty", as the foundation puts it. Back in 1906, Friedrich Naumann wrote that the idea of liberalism had lost so much of its clarity and attraction that it had to be "recreated". That is what this seminar will try to do. Armed with deeper insight into freedom, we will be better able to advance it.
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