National Party South Africa | |
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| President | Achmat Williams |
| Co-Deputy Leader | Elizabeth Bantam |
| National Organiser | Steven Taylor |
| Director of Policy & Strategy | Dries Oelofse |
| Director of Electoral Affairs | Mark Naidoo |
| Founder | Achmat Williams David Sasman Juan-Duval Uys Abdullah Omar |
| Founded | 5 August 2008 (2008-08-05) |
| Dissolved | 2019 |
| Split from | New National Party |
| Merged into | National Freedom Party |
| Headquarters | Paul Sauer building, 1 Adderly Street,Cape Town |
| Youth wing | National Party South Africa Youth League |
| Ideology | National conservatism Federalism Nationalism Non-racialism Anti-LGBT Anti-DA Anti-ANC |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| Colours | Blue, white, orange and green |
| Slogan | Enough is Enough |
| City of Cape Town council seats (2011)[1] | 1 / 221 |
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TheNational Party of South Africa (NP), also called theNational Party, was aright-wing South African political party. It competed for theWestern Cape province in the2009 provincial election and municipal council seats in the2011 local government elections.
On 5 August 2008 a new party using the National Party name was formed and registered with theIndependent Electoral Commission.[2] The initial leadership was held byDavid Sasman,Juan-Duval Uys,Abdullah Omar, (all previously with the controversialNational People's Party[disambiguation needed]) and a fourth person, not immediately named, who later turned out to beAchmat Williams.[3] Williams, a formerNew National Party (NNP) politician, was a member of theIndependent Democrats before co-founding the new party. Other than some low-level former members, the new party had no formal connection with the now defunct NNP. The relaunched National Party of 2008 promoted a non-racial democratic South Africa based on federal principles and the legacy ofF.W De Klerk.[2][4][5]
A press release issued by Jean-Duval Uys on the party's website, dated 22 January 2009, deals with aCape High Court challenge against Uys by Williams and Omar on behalf of themselves and Sasman for leadership of the party[6] ahead of the2009 general election. Before the court case was finalised, Uys announced that he had joined theCongress of the People.[7] Williams was listed as the national leader on the party's website.
In 2019, due to lack of support, and its name being addicted to the apartheid era the National Party was dissolved after the NP federal council voted to disband. It merged into theNational Freedom Party and Achmat Williams resigned as party leader.
The party had the following principal policies:
Although the party was on the ballot for theWestern Cape Provincial Parliament in the 2009 poll,[10] they only attracted 3,378 votes and failed to secure a seat.[11] They nominated several candidates registered for the2011 local government elections, one of whom, Bonita Elvira Hufkie, was listed on her ward ballot for both the National Party and thePan Africanist Congress.[12] The NP failed to win any wards, but obtained one council seat through theproportional representation (PR) vote,[1] which was filled by Achmat Williams, who topped the party's PR candidate list.
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| Election year | # of overall votes | % of overall vote | # of overall seats won | +/– | |
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| 2009 | 3,378 | 0.17 | 0 / 400 | – | |
| 2014 | 2,694 | 0.13 | 0 / 400 | – | |
| Election | Eastern Cape | Free State | Gauteng | KwaZulu-Natal | Limpopo | Mpumalanga | North-West | Northern Cape | Western Cape | |||||||||
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| % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | % | Seats | |
| 2014 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.13% | 0/42 |
| 2009 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.17% | 0/42 |
The National Party (NP) regrouped and reregistered with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) as a political party on all levels of government. The National Party reregistered as National Party South Africa (NP) and resurfaces as a mainstream political contender in post 1994 South African politics.
Achmat Williams, a former National Party councillor, later also councillor for the Independent Democrats (ID), was appointed as our National Director Marketing and serves on the NP National Executive with David Sasman, Juan-Duval Uys and Abdullah Omar.
Axed Western Cape members under the umbrella of Abdulla Omar and Achmat Williams, today tried in vain to obtain an urgent interim High Court interdict to remove the IEC-registered NP National leader. Williams and Omar filed for a court interdict against both Juan-Duval Uys (NP National leader) and the Electoral Independent Commission (IEC).
Self-appointed former leader of the recently-resurrected National Party, Juan Duval Uys has joined Cope, he announced on Wednesday.
The revived National Party will accept gay and lesbian members who they would help to "rehabilitate" despite campaigning for same sex marriages to be abolished.
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Aspiring councillor Bonita Elvira Hufkie is to stand against herself in a Cape Town ward during the upcoming municipal elections.
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