Delegates at the summit of the Afrikaner Unity Movement (AUM), held in Pretoria, voted to transform the AUM into a political party in order to contest the 1999 general election. Although the new party drew support from a number of leading Afrikaner political figures, it was attacked by Freedom Front (FF) leader Constand Viljoen as being divisive.
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14 November 1998
New Afrikaner Political Party
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- 30 Sep 2019
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- 01Keesing's Record of World Events, News Digest for October 1994, P 42596.
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