biography
| name: |
Worrall, Denis John
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| South African politician, born in Benoni, NE South Africa. He studied at Cape Town and Cornell universities, where he subsequently taught political science. He held a succession of academic posts and also worked as a journalist before being elected a National Party senator in 1974, and an MP in 1977. He was appointed ambassador to Australia (1982–4) and then to the UK, but on his return to South Africa in 1987 resigned from the National Party and unsuccessfully contested the general election of that year as an independent. In 1988 he established the Independent Party, and in 1989 merged with other white Opposition parties to form the reformist Democratic Party. A co-leader of this Party, he was elected to parliament in 1989. |
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