/ 14 April 1999

MORE NNP DEFECTIONS LIKELY

THE New National Party in Mpumalanga expects more white people to defect from its ranks after its chairman defected, the party’s provincial leader, David Malatsi, said on Tuesday. NNP chairman and leader of the opposition in the provincial legislature, Dr Lucas Nel, crossed the floor to Louis Luyt’s Federal Alliance on Tuesday, along with his wife, Felicia, who was a top legislature candidate.