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- ↑ "Final Candidates List: Universal Party" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2009-04-26.[ dead link ]
- ↑ "Results Report: Provincial Election: Western Cape" (PDF). Independent Electoral Commission. Retrieved 2009-04-26.[ dead link ]
- ↑ "Party contact information - Electoral Commission of South Africa".
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