Denis Worrall

Denis John Worrall (29 May 1935 – 18 May 2023) was a South African academic, businessman, politician and diplomat.

Life and career Denis John Worrall was born in Benoni, Transvaal, Union of South Africa on 29 May 1935. He was appointed a Senator for the Cape Province in 1974, representing the segregationist National Party. He was subsequently elected to the House of Assembly as National Party MP for Cape Town Gardens. He was chairman of the Constitutional Committee of the President's Council until 1982, and was Ambassador to Australia from 1982 to 1984, and then Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1984 to 1987.

As a member of the NP's relatively moderate faction, Worrall objected to the shift from reform to security after 1985. He resigned his post in order to return to South Africa and enter politics again, standing as an independent against the senior government minister Chris Heunis in the Helderberg constituency in the 1987 election, but lost by 39 votes.

Denis Worrall died on 18 May 2023, at the age of 87.