Denis John Worrall is an academic, businessman, and former politician and diplomat. He was South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n ambassador to Australia from 1982 to 1984 and then Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1984 to 1987. He resigned his post in order to return to South Africa and form the liberal anti-apartheid Independent Party

Independent Party (South Africa)

The Independent Party was founded in 1987 by Denis Worrall and Wynand Malan. Its purpose was to protest against the National Party's shift in policy from reform to security. It contested the 1987 election as the Independent Movement and Malan, its founder, won its only seat...

 with Wynand Malan

Wynand Malan

Wynand Malan is a liberal Afrikaner South African politician.A lawyer, Malan entered politics in the 1977 South African election when he was elected to the South Africa's all white parliament as the National Party MP for Randburg....

. He subsequently became one of the three co-leaders of the Democratic Party

Democratic Party (South Africa)

The Democratic Party was the name of the South African political party now called the Democratic Alliance . Although the Democratic Party name dates from 1989, the party existed under other labels throughout the Apartheid years, when it was the Parliamentary opposition to the ruling National...

.

Worrall taught at universities in South Africa (University of the Witwatersrand

University of the Witwatersrand

The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is a South African university situated in the northern areas of central Johannesburg. It is more commonly known as Wits University...

), Nigeria and the United States

United States

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 and edited the first general textbook on the South African government and politics.

Worrall is the former Vice Chairman of the International Bank of Southern Africa, former chairmam of the Australian mining company Crown Diamonds N.L., director of several other companies and a consultant to the World Bank

World Bank

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and several multinational corporations.