The Independent Party ( af, Onafhanklike Party) was founded in 1987 by
and
Wynand Malan
Wynand Malan (born 25 May 1943) is a liberal Afrikaner South African politician.
A lawyer, Malan entered politics in the 1977 South African election when he was elected to the South Africa's all white parliament as the National Party MP for ...
. Its purpose was to protest against the National Party's shift in policy from reform to security. It contested the
1987 election as the Independent Movement and Malan, its founder, won its only seat. Disappointed by this result, Malan left to form the
National Democratic Movement (NDM), and Worrall assumed the leadership.
Unlike most other legal non-racialist parties of the Apartheid era, the IP's membership was mainly composed of Afrikaners rather than English-speakers.
U.S. Sanctions on South Africa: The Results Are In
/ref> The IP absorbed many members of the New Republic Party after its dissolution. In 1989, it merged with the Progressive Federal Party
The Progressive Federal Party (PFP) ( af, Progressiewe Federale Party) was a South African political party formed in 1977 through merger of the Progressive and Reform parties, eventually changing its name to the Progressive Federal Party. For it ...
(and others including Malan's NDM) to form the Democratic Party (DP), now known as the Democratic Alliance (DA). The Afrikaner support melted away, and Worrall and Malan left the DP soon after its formation.
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