After Zille cried (for attack on her hero Helen Suzman) & Max Ozinsky was booted out of the legislature & the ANC embarked on targeted boycotts of DA sweetheart events, here is his personal view:
When I was 17 years old in 1980 I received my first call-up papers for conscription into the apartheid army, the SADF. As a young South African who grew up in Newlands, the heart of Progressive Party liberalism in Cape Town which had influenced my young thoughts, there was no way I could with any conscience go and fight for apartheid. I managed to avoid that call up by enrolling at UCT.
The following year, during orientation week at UCT I went to a table of Helen Suzman's PFP and asked them what I should do with my call-up papers. They told me to go and serve for two years in the apartheid army.
It is this experience, which showed the big gap between their nice words and their actions, in essence whether they were prepared to make any sacrifices to end apartheid, which turned me off the Progressive Party's kind of liberalism for life.
For thousands of young white South African men conscription was the key way in which apartheid affected them - were they were prepared to give two years to fight and perhaps give their lives for apartheid? Whilst most did serve in the SADF, many others refused to become cannon fodder for apartheid's war on our neighbouring countries, the colonisation of Namibia and the increasing use of the SADF to quell uprisings in the townships.
It is also through this experience that I and many others learnt that non-racialism must mean that whites also need to be honest to their principles and be prepared to make sacrifices to help end apartheid and create a democratic South Africa. This is what the fake liberals of the PFP refused to do and this is why they became completely irrelevant to a generation of white youth who were expected to sacrifice their lives, so that their parents could continue enjoy the benefits produced for them by apartheid. This is why I later joined in helping to found the End-Conscription Campaign.