The Democratic Reform Party of South Africa was a party active in the South African coloured community in the late

apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

years. It won five of the eighty seats in the segregated

House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often c ...

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 The apartheid system in South Africa was ended through a series of bilateral and multi-party negotiations between 1990 and 1993. The negotiations culminated in the passage of a new interim Constitution in 1993, a precursor to the Constitution ...

negotiations to end apartheid.

References

Defunct political parties in South Africa {{SouthAfrica-org-stub