 It was never represented in the South African Parliament, neither in the apartheid era nor after democratisation.In 1989, it joined the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) in declaring support for Jaap Marais, the leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party and has worked with the HNP on occasion since.The party was a charter member of the Afrikaner Volksfront coalition group.