Green Party of South Africa

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The Green Party of South Africa (GPGP; German for example: "Green Party of South Africa") is a green South African party that was founded in 1999. She is a member of the Federation of Green Parties of Africa. It is based in Noordhoek, a suburb of the metropolitan municipality of City of Cape Town .

history

prehistory

In 1983, the Cape Town-based group Koeberg Alert was the first South African environmental organization to not only advocate animal and plant protection. In 1989 the Ecology Party was founded, but it soon disbanded. The Green Party (GRP) was founded in 1992 and did not get a seat in the 1994 provincial elections. It also disbanded. In 1995 the eThekwini Ecopeace Party was founded in Durban , which in 2000 won a seat in the Council of the Metropolitan Municipality of eThekwini with 0.42% of the vote, which it lost again five years later.

Foundation and party work

In 1999 Judith "Judy" Sole from Cape Town founded the Government by the People Green Party (GPGP), which received 0.06% of the vote in the 1999 national elections and has been known as the Green Party of South Africa since 2000 under the previous abbreviation. In 2000 she reached 0.28% of the vote in the election for the Council of the City of Cape Town , in the 2004 election of the Western Cape Province with 3317 votes 0.21% of the vote and thus no seat.

In 2010 the GPGP joined the Federation of Green Parties of Africa . In 2013, the party committed against high for their views fishing quotas for Langustenart West Coast rock lobster ( Jasus lalandii ). The party did not run for the 2014 parliamentary elections and the 2016 local elections . In 2019, however, the party took part in the election for the Provincial Parliament of the Western Cape. It received 0.13% of the vote and again no seat.

The chairwoman is the party founder Judith Sole.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2000 election results in eThekwini at eisa.org.za ( Memento from January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  2. ↑ Greens see red over rock lobster. Mail & Guardian dated January 4, 2013, accessed June 21, 2015
  3. ↑ a b Green Party will not be a voter favorite. timeslive.co.za, March 25, 2014, accessed August 14, 2016
  4. ↑ Election results (Western Cape) elections.org.za (English), accessed on May 16, 2019