Green Party of South Africa
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Political party
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in the Western Cape province
Province
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. It has similar policies to Green parties
Worldwide green parties
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around the world, and is a member of the Federation of Green Parties of Africa
Federation of Green Parties of Africa
The Federation of Green Parties of Africa is the organization of Green parties in Africa, similar to other continental Green Party groupings like in the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, and Europe.-Member parties:*Benin: Les Verts du Benin...
.
History of Green politics in South Africa
The Ecology Party was established in November 1989, but disbanded after recruiting only 1 800 members.Ian Brownlie
Ian Brownlie
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launched the Green Party (GRP) in July 1992, but it too disbanded after failing to win a seat in the 1994 Western Cape provincial election
Election
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s under the leadership of Nathan Grant.
Judy Sole founded the Government by the People Green Party (GPGP) in 1999, and the party has contested elections as the Green Party of South Africa since the 2000 local elections. The Cape Town Greens, the party's only constitutional association, withdrew its support before the 2004 general election and then disbanded.
Election results
| Year | National | Western Cape provincial |
City of Cape Town | References | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ward | Proportional | ||||||||
| 1994 South African general election, 1994 The South African general election of 1994 was an election held in South Africa to mark the end of apartheid, therefore also the first held with universal adult suffrage. The election was conducted under the direction of the Independent Electoral Commission .Millions queued in lines over a three... |
2 611 | 0.1% | |||||||
| 1999 South African general election, 1999 South Africa's second non-racial general election, held on 2 June 1999 was won by the African National Congress , who increased their number of seats by 14. Notable was the sharp decline of the New National Party, previously the National Party , who without former president F.W. de Klerk lost more... |
9 193 | 0.06% | 2 453 | 0.15% | |||||
| 2000 South African municipal election, 2000 Municipal elections were held in South Africa on 5 December 2000 to elect members to the local governing councils in the municipalities of South Africa.-Results:... |
477 | 0.07% | 1 973 | 0.28% | |||||
| 2004 South African general election, 2004 Legislative elections were held in South Africa on Wednesday, 14 April 2004. The African National Congress of President Thabo Mbeki, which came to power after the end of the apartheid system in 1994, was re-elected with an increased majority.... |
3 317 | 0.21% | |||||||