Dikwankwetla Party of South Africa | |
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| Leader | Moeketsi Lebesa |
| Founder | Kenneth Mopeli |
| Founded | 1974 |
| Headquarters | QwaQwa,Free State,South Africa |
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Dikwankwetla Party of South Africa is apolitical party in theFree State province,South Africa. The party was founded byKenneth Mopeli in 1975. The party governed thebantustan state ofQwaQwa from 1975 to 1994.
It was one of the signatories of theNational 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 thePan-Africanist Congress for the 2004 elections, after renouncing their pact with theDemocratic 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 ofMaluti a Phofung (formerly theQwaQwa state) the party got 8,493 votes (6.7%). The party also has some small base of support in the central parts of theFree 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 | Total votes | Share of vote | Seats | +/– | Government |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 19,451 | 0.10% | 0 | – | extra-parliamentary |
| Election | Votes | % | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 17,024 | 1.26 | 0 |
| 2004 | 9,806 | 0.97 | 0 |
| 2009 | 11,257 | 1.09 | 0 |
| Election | Votes | % | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 4,853 | 0.12 | 0 |
| 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 |
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