Dikwankwetla Party of South Africa is 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 ideological or p ...

in the Free State province,

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

. The party was founded by

Kenneth Mopeli Tsiame Kenneth Mopeli (20 September 1930 – 1 October 2014)http://www.express-news.co.za/articles/articledetails.aspx?id=193545 was the former Chief Minister of the South African bantustan of QwaQwa. Born in Namahadi, Mopeli earned a Bachelor ...

in 1975. The party governed the

bantustan A Bantustan (also known as Bantu homeland, black homeland, black state or simply homeland; ) was a territory that the National Party administration of South Africa set aside for black inhabitants of South Africa and South West Africa (now ...

state of

QwaQwa QwaQwa was a bantustan ("homeland") in the central eastern part of South Africa. It encompassed a very small region of in the east of the former South African province of Orange Free State, bordering Lesotho. Its capital was Phuthaditjhaba. It ...

from 1975 to 1994. It was one of the signatories of the National Peace Accord, but later withdrew. 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 the Pan-Africanist Congress for the 2004 elections, after renouncing their pact with the Democratic Alliance. 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 of Maluti a Phofung (formerly the

state) the party got 8,493 votes (6.7%). The party also has some small base of support in the central parts of the Free 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 results

National elections

, - ! Election ! Total votes ! Share of vote ! Seats ! +/– ! Government , - !

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson ...

, 19,451 , 0.10% , 0 , – , , -

Provincial elections

Free State provincial elections

, - ! Election ! Votes ! % ! Seats , - !

, 17,024 , 1.26 , 0 , - ! 2004 , 9,806 , 0.97 , 0 , - ! 2009 , 11,257 , 1.09 , 0 , -

Gauteng provincial elections

, - ! Election ! Votes ! % ! Seats , - !

, 4,853 , 0.12 , 0 , -

Municipal elections

, - ! Election ! Votes ! % ! Seats , - !

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from S ...

, align="right" , , align="right" , 0.11% , align="right" , 10 , - ! 2006 , align="right" , , align="right" , 0.09% , align="right" , 6 , - ! 2011 , align="right" , 42,163 , align="right" , 0.12% , align="right" , 10 , - !

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ...

, 16,478 , 0.04% , align="right" , 4 , - !

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October 2021 coup in Sudan; Crowd shortly after t ...

, align="right" , 10,752 , align="right" , 0.04% , align="right" , 3

References

{{South African political parties Political parties in South Africa Political parties established in 1975 QwaQwa