Dikwankwetla Party of South Africa
LeaderMoeketsi Lebesa
FounderKenneth Mopeli
Founded1974
HeadquartersQwaQwa, Free State, South Africa
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Dikwankwetla Party of South Africa is a political party in the Free State province, South Africa. The party was founded by Kenneth Mopeli in 1975. The party governed the bantustan state of QwaQwa from 1975 to 1994.

It was one of the signatories of the National Peace Accord, but later withdrew.[1][2]

In the first non-racial elections held in South Africa in 1994, the party contested both parliamentary and provincial elections. It won 19,451 votes in the parliamentary elections (0.1% of nationwide vote) and 21,877 votes in the provincial elections in the Free State, failing to win seats in either.

After not standing in the 1999 elections, the party entered into an electoral pact with the Pan-Africanist Congress for the 2004 elections, after renouncing their pact with the Democratic Alliance.[3] DPSA candidates contested on the PAC parliamentary lists. DPSA did, however, contest the provincial elections in the Free State, where it got 9,806 votes (0.97% of the votes in that province), again failing to win a seat. In the municipality of Maluti a Phofung (formerly the QwaQwa state) the party got 8,493 votes (6.7%). The party also has some small base of support in the central parts of the Free State and is the largest opposition party in the Maluti a Phofung council.

In the 2009 elections, the party again contested only the Free State provincial election, failing to win a seat. The party won a by-election in QwaQwa in December 2011.

Election results

National elections

Election Total votes Share of vote Seats +/– Government
1994 19,451 0.10% 0 – extra-parliamentary

Provincial elections

Free State provincial elections

Election Votes % Seats
1994 17,024 1.26 0
2004 9,806 0.97 0
2009 11,257 1.09 0

Gauteng provincial elections

Election Votes % Seats
1994 4,853 0.12 0

Municipal elections

Election Votes % Seats
2000[4] 0.11% 10
2006[5] 0.09% 6
2011[6] 42,163 0.12% 10
2016[7] 16,478 0.04% 4
2021[8] 10,752 0.04% 3

References

  1. ^ "Owning the process - Public participation in peacemaking". Archived from the original on 23 February 2005. Retrieved 25 November 2005.
  2. ^ "The Dikwankwetla Withdrawal from the National Peace Accord". Archived from the original on 14 January 2006. Retrieved 25 November 2005.
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 January 2006. Retrieved 15 May 2006.((cite web)): CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Municipal elections". news24.com. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  5. ^ "Municipal elections". news24.com. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  6. ^ "Results Summary - All Ballots" (PDF). elections.org.za. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  7. ^ "Results Summary - All Ballots" (PDF). elections.org.za. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
  8. ^ "Results Summary - All Ballots" (PDF). elections.org.za. Retrieved 20 November 2021.
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