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Peter Dreyer
Peter Richard Dreyer (born November 15, 1939) is the author of ''A Beast in View'' (London: André Deutsch), ''The Future of Treason'' (New York: Ballantine), ''A Gardener Touched with Genius: The Life of Luther Burbank'' (New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; rev. ed., Berkeley: University of California Press; new, expanded ed., Santa Rosa, CA: Luther Burbank Home & Gardens), and ''Martyrs and Fanatics: South Africa and Human Destiny'' (New York: Simon & Schuster; London: Secker & Warburg). He was born and brought up in South Africa, where he was involved in the anti-apartheid struggle, serving on the Cape Provincial Committee of the Liberal Party, founded and led by Alan Paton, and as secretary of the Western Province Press Association, which published the fortnightly ''The Citizen'' (not to be confused with the pro-apartheid tabloid of the same name launched in 1976), which introduced the concept of nonracial democracy in South Africa. At the time, the Liberal Party was the only unsegregated political party in South Africa. The African National Congress (ANC) restricted its membership to black Africans (excluding not only "whites" but "Coloured" and Indian South Africans too), and did not desegregate itself until many years later. Dreyer put forward the idea of nonracialism in a pamphlet titled ''Against Racial Status and Social Segregation'' (Claremont, Cape Town, 1958; now very rare, but to be found in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University and the Hoover Library at Stanford University). The Citizen Group also worked to establish nonracial trade unions, resistance to bus apartheid in Cape Town, and a nonracial theater project, which led to a production of Jean Genet's ''The Blacks''. On February 8, 1958, Patrick Duncan launched the Liberal Party fortnightly ''Contact'', with offices on Parliament Street in Cape Town. Dreyer worked closely with Duncan, and in ''Contact'', 1, no. 15, dated August 23, 1958, he published an article about the newly formed nonracial South African Meat Workers Union under the by-line “Contact Special Correspondent.” On the cover of the magazine, Duncan placed the Citizen group slogan “Forward to a South African patriotism based on non-racial democracy”--the first prominent demand for a nonracial answer to apartheid.
== Subsequent Career ==
Peter Dreyer left South Africa in 1962 and subsequently launched and edited ''Omphalos: A Mediterranean Review'' in Athens. In 1972, however, he was expelled from Greece by the military junta then in power there and moved to the United States. In New York he was a contributor to ''The Nation'' and to Coburn Britton's belletrist magazine ''Prose''. During the 1970s, he was book columnist for ''San Francisco'' magazine and a frequent contributor to the ''San Francisco Review of Books''. He has lived in Virginia since 1988 and is writing a novel tentatively titled ''Isacq Incognito,'' based on the life and adventures of his forefather Isacq d’Algué, alias Johannes Augustinus Dreyer (1689–1759), who arrived at the Cape in 1713 as a petty officer on a Dutch East India Company ship, becoming the progenitor in southern Africa of tens of thousands of Dreyers and others living there today. Dreyer is simultaneously at work on a memoir, ''Isacq d’Algué and His Ilk.'' The two books are expected to be published in 2016.
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