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(Politician) Jaap Marais was an Afrikaner nationalist author, thinker, and politician. Marais, who led the Herstigte Nasionale Party from 1977 to 2000, is the longest-serving leader of any political party in the history of Afrikaner politics. As a thinker, Jaap Marais influenced many right-wing Afrikaner nationalists, especially in the 1970s and 1980s.