318:– who opposed cooperation between AEB and NA, primarily on the grounds that NA, unlike AEB, was open to non-white members. Although Aucamp managed to retain the leadership of the AEB, his party membership was suspended at an AEB council meeting in February 2003. His suspension was apparently orchestrated by the party's right, who also elected Werner Weber as AEB's new leader and parliamentary representative.
287:(NA; Afrikaans for National Action) which, in Aucamp's words, would not be "ashamed to say that we will specifically support the interests of the Afrikaner". Aucamp and Schutte, who said that the union was the result of four years of negotiation, were installed as the party's inaugural co-leaders. At the party's official launch in
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Aucamp represents conservative
Afrikaner interests. But human beings are not like stones. We sit next to each other. He melts your heart with his jokes. He is a very funny man. He is a minister of the church, but he is very naughty. At a personal level, he is a nice man.
334:, the first such window in the South African Parliament, Aucamp resigned from AEB and formally established NA as a parliamentary party, with him as its sole representative in the National Assembly. He served the rest of the parliamentary term under the NA banner.
314:'s phrase, "jumped the gun", because the 2002 floor-crossing law was declared invalid by a court. Unprotected by the law, Aucamp faced a challenge from the right wing of the AEB – dominated by former members of the
302:'s warning that, "A constitution is not a key to open a bedroom to take political prostitutes to bed." At NA's launch, Aucamp said that he hoped to cross the floor from AEB to NA under the new legislation.
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rugby team – everybody's second choice". Asked what he would do next, he joked that he would prefer to beg on a street corner than to join the
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