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After the NP was dissolved, Swanepoel joined the ANC, and formed the
Progressive Business Forum. His former colleague Renier Schoeman later co-convened the Forum, the ANC's new corporate outreach programme. In 2012, analyst Susan Booysen described Schoeman and Swanepoel as "die-hard Nats ... that
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eventually joined the ANC not out of principle but out of desperation for a little place in the ambit of political power".
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they retracted and apologised for the statement in April 2003.
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