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Japie Basson

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Political party
  
National PartyIndependentNational UnionUnited PartyProgressive Federal Party

Alma mater
  
Stellenbosch University

Died
  
8 August 2012, Cape Town, South Africa

Books
  
State of the Nation: As Viewed from a Front Bench in Parliament, 1969-1981

Jacobus "Japie" Basson (25 July 1918 – 8 August 2012) was a South African politician who began his career with the National Party, but was later expelled from it, and became a forceful critic of the apartheid government as a member, by turns, of the United Party, Progressive Federal Party, and his own short-lived National Union. He is described as "fiery", "colourful", an "individualist", and as the "chameleon" of South African politics for his shifting partisan allegiances.

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Japie Basson Wikipedia


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