South African Party (Republic of South Africa)

The new party committed itself to a federal or confederal solution to the country's political future and to the maintenance of separate group identities under white leadership with the rejection of power-sharing at every level.

[1] The party contested the 1977 general election and won three seats in the House of Assembly, however, Streicher was defeated in his Cape Town constituency of Wynberg.

Botha's government, and was the only cabinet minister of English descent, until his death in 1987 of a gunshot wound to the head.

[4] His son, Mark Wiley, is a Democratic Alliance legislator in Western Cape province.

He served from 1986 to 1989 as deputy minister of transportation and from 1994 to 1997 chairman of the National Party caucus in parliament.