 He was appointed as a member of the Board of Control of the SABC, and became its deputy chairman, until he was not reappointed as board member in 1987.As a result of this, he quit the National Party, also due to growing doubts and disagreements with its policies of Apartheid and became one of the government's strongest Afrikaans critics.He was a founding member of the Democratic Party (forerunner to the Democratic Alliance) and of the Vrye Weekblad of Max du Preez, but is no longer involved in politics.