OBITUARY | Denis Worrall, the NP’s charismatic ‘great white hope’ of SA politics

Adios to the man who cemented apartheid and helped knock it down later

22 May 2023 - 21:08 By Chris Barron

In 1986, apartheid's most eloquent spokesman Denis Worrall, who has died in Cape Town at the age of 87, gave up his cushy job as South Africa's ambassador in London and returned to the country to take on one of the National Party government's most senior and formidable cabinet ministers, Chris Heunis, as an independent candidate in the 1987 general election on an anti-apartheid ticket...

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