CP, noun

Origin:
Initial letters of Conservative Party.
A right-wing White party which broke away from the governing National Party in 1982, and which advocates apartheid and the partitioning of South Africa into racially homogenous territories; a member of this party; colloquially, KaaPee. Also attributive.
1982 Sunday Times 25 July 28The CP finally came up this week with what it laughingly calls a race policy. As far as it can be understood at all, it sounds like apartheid circa 1949.
1983 J.D. Grobler in Hansard 28 Feb. 1922Here in this House we asked the hon. member to dissociate himself from the AWB; to repudiate the AWB. But to this day not a single member of the CP has reacted to this!
1983 Survey of Race Rel. 1982 (S.A.I.R.R.) 12The CP’s success was due to the fact that it had become the genuine representative of the Afrikaner working and lower middle class — in particular the blue collar workers, lower paid civil servants and marginal farmers.
1987 S. Afr. Digest 8 May 5The CP’s policy of partition..leads to a system where each nation governs itself and eradicates any problems of how to negotiate with Blacks.
1990 R. Stengel January Sun 184In Brits, the CP people..put up signs in their restaurants that say, For Whites Only.
1990 Sunday Times 12 Aug. 17An NP/ANC coalition will usurp all power and suppress the living daylights out of AWBs, PACs, CPs, Azapos, Democrats and anyone else who dares express a dissenting view.
A right-wing White party which broke away from the governing National Party in 1982, and which advocates apartheid and the partitioning of South Africa into racially homogenous territories; a member of this party; colloquially, KaaPee. Also attributive.
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