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The leader of a South African party that opposed the ending of apartheid, fighting for whites to regain political power, died of a heart attack at the age of 79, the party said on Thursday.

Willie Marais, who co-founded the white supremacist Herstigte (reconstituted) National Party which splintered from the apartheid National Party government in 1969, died on Wednesday while on holiday.

"With his gentle nature and his engaging personality, Willie Marais had friends across the whole world," the SAPA news agency quoted party chief secretary Louis van der Schyff as saying.

The HNP last year called for the creation of a united Afrikaner "white front" as "the only way to regain political power in this country".

At its 2006 congress, the party adopted an "Afrikaner Freedom Manifesto" that complained about the losses that Afrikaners had suffered "because incompetent and illiterate Blacks got the vote".

Rejectioning a nation of united races as "anti-Christian", the HNP has fought for Afrikaner nationalism, saying the majority black government has stripped whites of their humanity.