Daryl Wade Swanepoel (born 16 June 1962) is a South African politician and political strategist who is currently the chief executive officer of the Inclusive Society Institute.
[1] He entered politics around the time of the 1987 general election, when he was involved in the NP's successful campaign to win the Progressive Federal Party-controlled Hillbrow constituency in Johannesburg.
[3] However, in late 1997, Swanepoel left the provincial legislature to fill a casual vacancy in the NP's caucus in the National Assembly, the lower house of the South African Parliament.
[16][17][18] In 2012, analyst Susan Booysen described Schoeman and Swanepoel as "die-hard Nats [NP supporters]... that eventually joined the ANC not out of principle but out of desperation for a little place in the ambit of political power".
[19] On 16 October 2013, Swanepoel returned to the National Assembly for another brief stint, on this occasion as a representative of the ANC; he filled the casual vacancy created by Sue van der Merwe's resignation[20] and departed after the 2014 general election.