Democratic Reform Party of South Africa
IdeologyAnti-apartheid

The Democratic Reform Party of South Africa was a party active in the South African coloured community in the late apartheid years.[1] It won five of the eighty seats in the segregated House of Representatives and formed the official opposition against the Labour Party's 69 seats. As the official opposition in the House of Representatives it took part in the CODESA negotiations to end apartheid.[2]

References

  1. ^ "South Africa: parliamentary elections House of Representatives, 1989". Inter-Parliamentary Union. 6 September 1989. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  2. ^ Ottaway, Marina (1 December 2010). South Africa: The Struggle for a New Order. Brookings Institution Press. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-8157-2046-1.


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