Wynand Malan (born 25 May 1943) is a South African liberal Afrikaner politician and lawyer.
In the 1987 general election, he left the NP[1] and ran as one of three independent candidates along with former ambassador to London Dennis Worrall and businesswoman Susan Lategan.
He subsequently became one of three co-leaders of the new party and retained his parliamentary seat in the 1989 general election by defeating former Ambassador to Canada Glenn Babb who was running for the NP.
From 1995 to 1998, Malan was a Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
[2] Malan later joined the African National Congress in 2001 and served as an advisor to former president Thabo Mbeki.