Botha legalised interracial marriages and multiracial political parties and relaxed the Group Areas Act.

The blacks naturally admired the communists, the nation's only multiracial party, for their stand against apartheid.

He's the leader of the opposition alliance, the opposition which is at its strongest ever, and the leader of the country's only multiracial party.

But these days, he and Mr. Holomisa are trying to do something never done in South Africa: build a new multiracial party.

Since then, he had joined a new multiracial party, the United Democratic Movement, and a violent struggle for control of the area had followed.

The 2004 name change is one step the party has taken to recast itself as a multiracial party.

The Liberals formed a multiracial party that originally drew considerable support from urban Africans and college-educated whites.

At the moment, the cold facts are these: The Democrats are a multiracial party, with large numbers of blacks in leadership positions.

South African Politician Slain Sifiso Nkabinde, a leading official of a new multiracial party, was shot dead.

But Mr. Mandela saved his most vitriolic statements for the newly formed United Democratic Movement, which is attempting to become a multiracial party.