The National People's Party (or National Peoples Party) was a political party registered on a national level with the

Independent Electoral Commission An election commission is a body charged with overseeing the implementation of electioneering process of any country. The formal names of election commissions vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and may be styled an electoral commission, a c ...

(IEC) of South Africa. It came into existence when

Badih Chaaban Badih Chabaan (c. 1960 - 4 September 2017) was a PR councilor in the Cape Town City Council (Subcouncil 17 (Athlone & District)). He was a member of the Africa Muslim Party (AMP) when he was named councilor in August 2006 but later crossed the fl ...

, a member of the

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crossed the floor from the

Africa Muslim Party The Africa Muslim Party is a South African Muslim political party. It was founded in 1994, with Gulam Sabdia as Chairman and Imtiaz Suleman as national leader, and competed in the 1994 elections, winning no seats (it had put up 60 candidates ...

(AMP) in an attempt to wrest control of the city council from the Democratic Alliance-led multi-party coalition. The party was set up by Chaaban shortly before the floor crossing period in 2007 with the help of David Sasman, its interim leader. It should not be confused with the National People's Party, renamed the Minority Front, led by

Amichand Rajbansi Amichand Rajbansi (14 January 1942 – 29 December 2011) was a South African politician. He was a former Chairman of the Ministers' Council of the House of Delegates Tricameral parliamentary chamber for Indian people, and leader of the Minority ...

during the

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era. The party has not contested elections since at least 2016 and is presumed defunct.

Persons

Members of the NPP (past and present) include: *

* Jeffrey Donson (now president of

Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa The Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa (ICOSA) is a minor South African political party. It was founded by former Karoo District Municipality manager Truman Prince, who was expelled from the African National Congress (ANC) in 2006. ...

) *

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(now an

African National Congress The African National Congress (ANC) is a Social democracy, social-democratic political party in Republic of South Africa, South Africa. A liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid, it has governed the country since 1994, when ...

(ANC) member) * Juan-Duval Uys (now a member of the

National Party South Africa The National Party South Africa (NP) is a registered South African political party, who competed for the Western Cape province in the 2009 provincial election and municipal council seats in the 2011 local government elections. History On 5 ...

) * Nickey Valentine

Local government positions

The NPP used to hold three council seats on the

and controlled the

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and the

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in coalition with the ANC. After the 2011 local government elections, their position was mostly reduced to a small number of seats in opposition on a limited number of councils. The NPP however governed

Oudtshoorn Local Municipality Oudtshoorn Municipality ( af, Oudtshoorn Munisipaliteit) is a municipality located in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. , the population was 95,933. Geography The municipality covers an area of in the Little Karoo, stretching from the S ...

in coalition with ANC and ICOSA between 2011 and 2015, when the municipality was placed under administration.

2011 local government elections

The party challenged the IEC's refusal to accept their candidate nomination lists for the

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's council in the upcoming

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, in the

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. Judge Pillay of the Electoral Court found that the IEC had been overly zealous in applying the cut-off time, and ordered the commission to allow the NPP to contest the elections.

NPP during the apartheid era

created a party called the National People's Party (NPP) in August 1981 from the remains of the

South African Indian Council The South African Indian Council was a body created by the apartheid-era South African government in 1968 to make recommendations to the government about matters affecting Indians. It was the first time that Indians were granted any sort of re ...

. In the 1984 election for the House of Delegates, part of the

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then created by the

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, the NPP won 18 of the 40 seats. The NPP led by Rajbansi became the

Minority Front The Minority Front is a political party in South Africa. The party represents all minorities of South Africa, however, its support comes mainly from the South African Indian community. Its voter base is in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The e ...

. The NPP of the apartheid era is not related to the post-2007 NPP.

References

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