[3] In 1987, Dalling was censured as an MP for remarks he made in the chamber about the Munnik Commission, an inquiry which had prepared the ground for parliamentary action against First National Bank by finding that the bank had helped finance an advertising campaign calling for the unbanning of the anti-apartheid African National Congress (ANC).
In a joint statement, the group said that they were responding to a call made by Nelson Mandela shortly after his release from prison in 1990, for "all our white compatriots to join us in the shaping of a new South Africa".
[10] He had business interests during his term in Parliament,[11] and after his retirement from the legislature, he ran a tour guide company, Diplomatic Destinations.
[1] He later revealed that he had terminated his ANC membership in the years after 1999, due to "problems of conscience" arising from party infighting, President Thabo Mbeki's policy on HIV/AIDS and the increasing authoritarianism of Robert Mugabe in neighbouring Zimbabwe, "the crass behaviour" of Jacob Zuma, and the ANC's lacklustre response to corruption in the Arms Deal and Travelgate.
[10] He assisted Patricia de Lille's minor party, the Independent Democrats, in 2008,[10] but in February 2009, he announced that he had joined the Congress of the People (COPE), a breakaway from the ANC formed in late 2008.
[12] He said that he was attracted by COPE's commitment to non-racism, its defence of the rule of law, and its acknowledgement that affirmative action was causing brain drain.