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	Democratic Party (South Africa) - Definition, explanation
		Although the Democratic Party name dates from 1989, the party existed under other labels throughout the Apartheid years, when it was the Parliamentary opposition to the ruling National Party's policies (although it never commanded much support from the white electorate).
		As the party absorbed smaller antiapartheid groupings, as well as defectors from the United Party (the main opposition party in South Africa prior to 1977), its name changed a few times.
		Prior to the adoption of the Democratic Party label, it was known variously as the Progressive Party, Progressive Reform Party, and Progressive Federal Party.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/d/de/democratic_party__south_africa_.php (342 words)

	National Party (South Africa) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Party (Afrikaans: Nasionale Party) (with its members sometimes known as Nationalists or Nats) was the governing party of South Africa from 1948 until 1994, and was disbanded in 2005.
		The National Party was founded in Bloemfontein in 1914 by Afrikaner nationalists soon after the establishment of the Union of South Africa.
		Another goal was achieved in 1960, when the white population voted to sever South Africa's ties with the British Monarchy and establish a republic, which led to South Africa's withdrawal from the Commonwealth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Party_(South_Africa) (1282 words)

	Democratic Alliance (South Africa) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The PFP drew support mainly from liberal English-speaking white South Africans, as owing to South Africa's apartheid laws, its membership was limited to the country's whites.
		The PFP was ousted as the official opposition by the far-right Conservative Party in the whites-only parliamentary elections held on 6 May 1987.
		The party improved its performance during the 1999 general election to receive 9,6% of the vote and 44 seats, replacing the New National Party as official opposition.
	www.lighthousepoint.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Democratic_Alliance_(South_Africa) (731 words)

	ANC prepares to party: South Africa: Elections 2004: News24
		Africa's oldest liberation movement, which in 1994 forced an end to some five decades of white racist rule, won a two-thirds majority in Wednesday's landmark polls -- a magic figure it had failed to garner in the country's previous two elections.
		The ANC was set to celebrate its pioneering win at a victory party later on Friday in Johannesburg with Mbeki due to attend the ceremony at a posh convention centre in the Sandton.
		As Mbeki braced for a second and last term in power, the party issued a statement declaring that it had won a "decisive mandate to fight poverty and create work" from voters from all races and classes.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/Elections2004/0,,2-7-1557_1513157,00.html (529 words)

	Elections in South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		South Africa (English: South Africa - Afrikaans: Suid-Afrika) is a country in Southern Africa.
		South Africa has a population of around 43 million on 1,219,912 km².
		The country is a parliamentary democratic republic, divided in 9 provinces.
	www.electionworld.org /southafrica.htm (251 words)

	CNN - South Africa's ruling party heads to two-thirds victory - June 3, 1999
		Nelson Mandela's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party was headed to a landslide two-thirds majority Thursday in South Africa's second all-race elections, a result that would bestow the power to alter the post-apartheid constitution.
		The DP, which as the Progressive Party was the lone parliamentary voice against apartheid for 13 years, polled 10.8 percent of the first 9.5 million votes, leaving the NNP trailing in third place with about 8.1 percent.
		The Zulu-based Inkatha Freedom Party, third-largest in the country's first democratically elected parliament, was narrowly behind the NNP with just over 8 percent of the vote.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9906/03/south.africa.vote.02 (784 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Country profiles \| Country profile: South Africa
		Until 1994 South Africa was ruled by a white minority which considered itself superior, and which was so determined to hang onto power that it took activists most of last century before they succeeded in their fight to get rid of apartheid and extend democracy to the rest of the population.
		South Africa faces major problems, but having held three successful national elections as well as local polls since the end of white rule, a democratic culture appears to be taking hold, allowing people at least some say in the search for solutions.
		South Africa is the continent's major media player, and its many broadcasters and publications reflect the diversity of the population as a whole.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/country_profiles/1071886.stm (740 words)

	An MBendi Profile: South Africa - Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		South Africa is situated at the southern tip of Africa forming part of the Southern Africa region and is bordered by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Swaziland.
		South Africa was first inhabited by the Khoisan, followed by Bantu tribes migrating from the North.
		South Africa has only had modest growth rates in recent years and this is put down to the populations low saving levels.
	www.mbendi.co.za /land/af/sa/p0005.htm (2281 words)

	SOUTH AFRICA IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		South Africa's shift in 1994 from apartheid to a new democracy was hailed around the world as a miracle.
		As South Africa gears up for its elections next year, the danger for potential investors is that the progress made over the last four years may be obscured by the myth-making that seems to be part of political campaigns around the world.
		South Africa has an abundant labor supply that, with additional training for those who under apartheid were kept outside the mainstream economy, is poised to add Asmart work, the increased use of technology and the better organization of work, to the traditional notion of Ahard work evident in the toil of underground workers.
	usembassy.state.gov /posts/sf1/wwwhjj23.html (2850 words)

	SIM Country Profile: South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		South Africa, neighbored by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Swaziland, is the southernmost country in Africa.
		South Africa is composed of a narrow coastal zone and an extensive interior plateau, ranging from 915 to 1830 m (3,000 to 6,000 ft), which is bordered by the Drakensburg Mountains.
		South Africa is in the midst of continuing political change since the termination of apartheid policies.
	www.sim.org /country.asp?CID=45&fun=1 (2049 words)

	AllRefer.com - South Africa - South African Communist Party \| South African Information Resource
		In South Africa, white workers generally felt they had little in common with their fl counterparts and feared that any improvements for fl workers would reduce their own status and income.
		Party members campaigned against military recruitment of fls (and Indi ans) in South Africa, arguing that the "natives" should not be sacrificed to perpetuate their own exploitation.
		Party members reportedly persuaded the ANC to abandon African nationalism in favor of nonracialism, however, although the SACP, unlike the ANC, viewed the primary objective of the revo lution as the creation of a socialist state.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/south-africa/south-africa110.html (1486 words)

	South African Elections 1999
		South Africa is scheduled to hold its second democratic elections sometime between May and June 1999.
		South African Deputy President (the de facto President) Thabo Mbeki has stated that South Africa needs to develop a "national consensus"; my suspicion (hopefully needlessly alarmist) is that South Africans will wake up the day after the elections in a one party state.
		The origins of the Democratic Party are to be found in the decision by 12 United Party (of Field Marshal Jan Smuts) Members of Parliament (MPs) to form the Progressive Party in 1959.
	www.geocities.com /legal15/elections.htm (1256 words)

	Political parties (from South Africa) -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The all-white National Party (NP) was the dominant parliamentary party from the time it came to power in 1948 until 1994.
		South Africa is bordered by Namibia to the northwest, by Botswana and Zimbabwe to the north, and by Mozambique and Swaziland to the northeast and east.
		Includes information on South Africa's first all-race democratic elections (1994); profiles of cabinet members; a catalog of government agencies, ministries, and administrative organizations; postings of parliamentary papers; an index of executive regulations and proclamations; and the text of legislation passed since 1992.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-44044?tocId=44044 (931 words)

	SOUTH AFRICA
		11 South African weapons were sold to countries in which some of the worst human rights abuses in the world were occurring: governments or opposition forces in Angola, Haiti, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, and Sudan were at one time or another considered legitimate recipients of South African weapons.
		By the time the country held its first multiracial democratic elections in April 1994, South Africa had established itself as the tenth largest arms producer in the world with approximately 800 arms and arms component manufacturers employing a workforce of 50,000 (down from 160,000 in the 1980s).
		South Africa came to excel in the production of long-range artillery systems, laser-designated missiles, aircraft electronic warfare systems, tactical radios, anti-radiation bombs, battlefield mobility systems, attack helicopters, and mine-protected and mine-detection vehicles.
	www.hrw.org /reports/2000/safrica/Sarfio00-01.htm (1125 words)

	Anarchism, revolutionary Syndicalism in South Africa. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		From an early stage, the ISL was committed to IWW-style revolutionary syndicalism, and saw the abolition of racial oppression in South Africa as a central revolutionary task.
		It was South Africa's first serious anarchist publication since the 1920s, and marked by its solid commitment to a politics of class struggle and fl liberation.
		South African anarchists explain the theories and ideas that underlie anarchism, in their own words.
	www.struggle.ws /africa/safrica.html (1025 words)

	South Africa: Election Systems and Conflict Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The National Assembly parliamentary and provincial elections held in South Africa in 1994 marked the high point of a period of tumultuous change from authoritarian rule to multi-party democracy in Southern Africa as a whole.
		This was primarily due to the "national referendum" nature of the campaign, which led to a two-party battle between the old and the new; the ANC versus the IFP in the KwaZulu-Natal province, and the ANC versus the NP in the rest of the country.
		The eventual results did show that large numbers of voters had split their national and provincial ballots between two parties, and it appears as though the major beneficiaries of the double ballot were the small Democratic Party and the Freedom Front.
	www.aceproject.org /main/english/es/esy_za.htm (1369 words)

	New National Party (South Africa) - Definition, explanation
		These two issues led to defections to the Democratic Party which had a historical legacy of being anti-apartheid and was clearly an opposition party to the ANC.
		During the 2004 South African general election, much of this support deserted the party due to unhappiness with their alliance with the ANC, and their portion of the national vote dropped from 6.9% in 1999 to 1.9% (it was 20.4% as the National Party in 1994).
		Despite his party's poor performance in the polls, van Schalkwyk was given the cabinet post of Minister of Enivironmental Affairs and Tourism, as a reward for aligning the NNP with the ANC.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/n/ne/new_national_party__south_africa_.php (514 words)

	SOUTH AFRICA — The 51st State: Proposal from a South African magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		At present, South Africa accounts for one-third of the GNP of the entire continent, and is obviously in a position to initiate an economic surge throughout the continent.
		South Africa is not merely one more square on the chessboard: it is one of the most important of all.
		The Expansionist Party of the United States thus endorses the idea of South Africa's joining the Union, as up to four States (the borders of which would be decided by South Africans before they petition Congress for statehood).
	members.aol.com /XPUS2/SouthAfrica.html (8256 words)

	South Africa Online - Government
		The Democratic Party is a liberal democratic political party whose members believe in the individual dignity and worth of every human being and that a free market economy is the means of creating jobs and wealth to empower and improve the lives of all South Africa's eople.
		The South African Communist Party was founded in 1921 and has always been in the forefront of thestruggle against imperialism and racist domination.
		The South African Communist Party was founded in 1921 and has always been in the forefront of the struggle against imperialism and racist domination.
	www.southafrica.co.za /government/parties.html (303 words)

	Democracy May Fail in South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		South Africans went to the polls Wednesday -- but the vote -- which continues to trickle in, may hand the ANC one party rule and be the beginning of the end for consitutional democracy.
		There are only two other major national political parties, the Democratic Alliance, a white-led party that took only 8.6 percent of the vote in 1999, and the Inkatha Freedom Party,(IFP) a regional power with strong ties to ethnic Zulus in KwaZulu-Natal province.
		A government commission study reported that South Africa is one of the countries with most unequal distributions of income in the world.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2004/4/14/225242.shtml (566 words)

	afrol News - South Africa emerges a two-party state
		The exception is a two-week-long "floor-crossing period", starting today, where representatives may leave their parties on the basis of principle, if they hold that their party abandoned their mandate to the voters.
		According to the last remaining nation-wide large opposition party, the DA, these developments are far from positive for the state of democracy in South Africa.
		For the many South African voters that align with a race-based identity - while racism is outlawed, social differences based on race groups have not decreased - NNP members are closer to the DA membership.
	www.afrol.com /articles/13847 (812 words)

	Liberal Party of South Africa
		The Liberal Party of South Africa was formed in 1953, and fifteen years later was forced to close when the National Party governnment passed the Prohibition of Improper Interference Act, which made non-racial political parties illegal.
		Another 26 years were to pass before South Africa became, at least on paper, the kind of society the Liberal Party had struggled for, with non-racial free elections, a democratic constitution that entrenched the rule of law, and a bill of rights.
		The main aim of the Liberal Party was to establish a free and democratic non-racial society in South Africa.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/7734/liberal1.htm (919 words)

	South African Political Parties
		The party emblem is in the centre - the globe and cross- with stripes of equal size and dimensions as in the Haiti flag.
		Having its origins as a breakaway group from the National Party in 1969, the HNP as with the Conservative Party, wished to stay as close to the traditional NP colours of orange, white and blue.
		The National Party (NP) was the ruling party in South Africa from 1948 until 26 April 1994 when the ANC came to power.
	flagspot.net /flags/za}.html (4306 words)

	South Africa - Elections '99 - Sustainable Democracy - SARDC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Touted as Africa's largest, most technologically advanced media operation to cover an election, South Africa's election centre is replete with strobe lights, dozens of television cameras, hundreds of computers and giant electronic screens monitoring results hourly.
		From the teeming slums of Alexandra to the glitzy towers of Sandton, South Africans queued patiently in their thousands for their country's second fully democratic elections.
		South Africa's President-elect Thabo Mbeki made these words his campaign mantra as pundits and politicians alike claimed the African National Congress's failed policies on jobs and crime would turn off the 18.3 million voters in yesterday's
	www.sardc.net /sd/elections99/southafrica (262 words)

	CNN - New South African parliament elects Mbeki as president - June 14, 1999
		PRETORIA, South Africa (CNN) -- Thabo Mbeki, long groomed as the successor to Nelson Mandela, was formally elected president of South Africa by the country's parliament Monday.
		His election was not opposed by the official opposition Democratic Party, the liberal and mainly white party that was a distant runner-up to the ANC in the second all-race election.
		Mbeki, who turns 57 on Friday, has been effectively running the country for the past several years as deputy president, after a long career in the ANC as an organizer, administrator and negotiator with the white government.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9906/14/mbeki.s.africa (365 words)

	South Africa warned over strikes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He said the number of strikes was harming South Africa's image.
		As though to underline the point, Cosatu - the Congress of South African Trade Unions - the main labour federation allied to the government, is starting a campaign of protests against job losses that threatens further to disrupt the economy as it recovers from the emerging markets crisis.
		South Africa last year saw a sharp increase in strikes, mostly over wages.
	www.opinion.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/2000/02/04/wsaf04.html (399 words)

	Program for Annual Conference \| IAPC - The International Association of Political Consultants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Tony Leon, leader of the Democratic Party (D.P.) by Mr.
		Tony Leon D.P. Member of Parliament and Leader of the Democratic Party talks about the past, the present and the future prospects for the Democratic Party in South Africa.
		Cevese counsellor on political affairs in the Italian Embassy in South Africa, discuss the status of and the events which have taken place this year in Italian politics.
	www.iapc.org /johannesburg.asp (1024 words)

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