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The National Party (Afrikaans: Nasionale Party, NP), also known as the Nationalist Party, [3] [4] [5] was a political party in South Africa from 1914 to 1997, which was responsible for the implementation of apartheid rule.
The New National Party (NNP) was a South African political party formed in 1997 as the successor to the National Party, which ruled the country from 1948 to 1994.The name change was an attempt to distance itself from its apartheid past, and reinvent itself as a moderate, mainstream conservative and non-racist federal party.
The National Party of South Africa (NP), also called the National Party was a right-wing South African political party. It competed for the Western Cape province in the 2009 provincial election and municipal council seats in the 2011 local government elections
General elections were held in South Africa on 26 May 1948. They represented a turning point in the country's history, as despite receiving just under half of the votes cast, the United Party and its leader, incumbent Prime Minister Jan Smuts, were ousted by the Herenigde Nasionale Party (HNP) led by D. F. Malan, a Dutch Reformed cleric.
For three decades, power in South Africa has had a three-letter name: the ANC, or the African National Congress.The political party once led by Nelson Mandela has been a powerful symbol of ...
The African National Congress and its staunchest adversary, the White-led, Democratic Alliance, forged an unprecedented alliance Friday, agreeing to collaborate in South Africa’s new government ...
For most of its history, South Africa has been a democratic but one-party dominant state with the African National Congress (ANC) as the governing party, though this has waned as of 2024. The Democratic Alliance (DA) governs the Western Cape Province and a number of municipalities , some in coalitions with smaller parties.
The focus for South Africa's national election next week is on the fate of the African National Congress party and whether it is going to lose its parliamentary majority for the first time, as ...