White Afrikaner Roelf Meyer (R) and Bantu Holomisa (L) co-founders in 1997 of the United Democratic Movement (UDM) addresses a news conference January 12. Meye,r who quit politics, said he could achive more in nonparliamenttary organisations. Meyer, a 52-year-old lawyer who served apartheid-era cabinats in the defence, police and constitutional portfolios, said he wanted to help bolster civic organisations in their relationship with the democratic government he helped to create.

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