Adriaan Blaas is a South African politician who served in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2004.
[1] He was not immediately re-elected in the 1999 general election, but he was sworn in to an NNP seat on 1 February 2000, filling the casual vacancy that had arisen after Danie Schutte resigned; he represented the KwaZulu-Natal constituency.
[2] He sat on the Standing Committee on Public Accounts until April 2002, when he was replaced by Francois Beukman (who was then elected chairman).
During the 2003 floor-crossing window, Blaas announced that he had resigned from the NNP to join the ACDP for "predominately personal reasons".
The ACDP is a fresh party that grew out of a new South African context, and their Christian principles and policies allow me to take a public stand compatible with my own value framework.