Wynand Malan (born 25 May 1943) is a liberal Afrikaner

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n politician. A lawyer, Malan entered politics in the 1977 South African election when he was elected to the South Africa's all white

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as the National Party MP for Randburg. A member of the NP's reform wing, he was critical of P.W. Botha for being too timid in his constitutional reforms in the 1980s and was also critical of the state of emergency implemented by Botha. In the 1987 general election, he left the NP and ran as one of three independent candidates along with former ambassador to London Dennis Worrall and businesswoman Susan Lategan. He was the only one of the trio elected, probably because he was the only incumbent. He subsequently quarreled with Worrall and so the two formed two separate political parties after the election. In early 1989 these two new parties joined up with the veteran Progressive Federal Party to form the Democratic Party, which won a record number of seats for a liberal party in the September 1989 whites-only election. He subsequently became one of three co-leaders of the new party and retained his parliamentary seat in the 1989 general election by defeating former Ambassador to Canada Glenn Babb who was running for the NP. Malan remained in the DP's leadership until 1993. From 1995 to 1998, Malan was a Commissioner of the

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, which was chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, Final Report, vol. 1, p. 44, available at https://www.justice.gov.za/trc/report/

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1943 births White South African anti-apartheid activists Afrikaner people Living people National Party (South Africa) politicians Independent Party (South Africa) politicians Democratic Party (South Africa) politicians Members of the House of Assembly (South Africa) {{Gauteng-politician-stub