 Another offshoot of the UP was the South African Party (reviving the name of the original SAP).Both the NRP and SAP were more conservative than the PFP, but envisioned a federal solution to the country's racial question.The SAP grew closer to the ruling National Party and merged into it by 1980, and the growing "verligte" ("enlightened") tendency within the National Party itself espoused expanded political participation for non-whites.