Parties

Encyclopedia of South Africa · 10 items

Centre-left

African National Congress

Party of the incumbent head of government

social democracy, African nationalism

Founded: 1912
Current leader: Cyril Ramaphosa

South African Communist Party

communism, democratic socialism, Marxism–Leninism

Founded: 1921

Centre

Democratic Alliance

liberalism, progressivism

Founded: 2000
Current leader: John Steenhuisen

Right

Inkatha Freedom Party

conservatism, populism, anti-communism

Founded: 1975
Current leader: Velenkosini Hlabisa

Right

Freedom Front Plus

Afrikaner nationalism, populism, Christian democracy

Founded: 1994
Current leader: Pieter Mulder

Pan Africanist Congress of Azania

anti-communism, Pan-Africanism, African socialism

Founded: 1959

Left

Economic Freedom Fighters

Marxism–Leninism, Pan-Africanism, anti-capitalism

Founded: 2013
Current leader: Julius Malema

Centre-left

Congress of the People

social democracy

Founded: 2008
Current leader: Mosiuoa Lekota

Left

uMkhonto we Sizwe

nationalism, socialism, social conservatism

Founded: 2023

African Christian Democratic Party

Christian right

Founded: 1993

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