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About 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 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. In 1994, Malan was vice-chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was chaired by Archbishiop Desmond Tutu.
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