The Ciskei National Independence Party (CNIP) was a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

in the nominally independent

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

n homeland of

Ciskei Ciskei (, or ) was a Bantustan for the Xhosa people-located in the southeast of South Africa. It covered an area of , almost entirely surrounded by what was then the Cape Province, and possessed a small coastline along the shore of the Indian O ...

. It was founded and led by Lennox Sebe. The party advocated cooperation with the South African government. The party governed Ciskei from 1973 until the 1990 coup d'état by Oupa Gqozo.

Electoral history

* 1978: CNIP won all 50 elected seats (a further 87 seats were filled by chiefs appointed ex-officio by the government)Elections in South Africa's Apartheid-Era Homelands "Bantustans"
African Elections Database * 1984: CNIP was deemed to won the election unopposed, as its 23 candidates were the only ones to register

References

Defunct political parties in South Africa Organisations associated with apartheid Political parties with year of disestablishment missing Political parties with year of establishment missing Politics of Ciskei {{SouthAfrica-party-stub