The New Labour Party (NLP) is a minor South African political party founded by Peter Marais after he left the New Nationalist Party in some disrepute. The name was chosen to evoke the former Labour Party led by the late Revd Allan Hendrickse as an anti-apartheid Coloured party. The NLP has sought to position itself as the political voice of Coloured people, particularly in the Western Cape Province, but without success. The party won only 0.09% of the vote in the 2004 nationwide election and 0.67% in the simultaneous election to the Western Cape legislature.[1]