National Democratic Convention
The National Democratic Convention (Nadeco; German about: "National Democratic Assembly") was a South African party.
founding
It was founded in August 2005 by Ziba Jiyane. Jiyane had previously been ousted as national chairman by his former Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) after accusing his party of dictatorial character at an IFP youth event in Umlazi near Durban at the end of the previous month . The new party adopted a Christian Democratic orientation and committed itself to the market economy . In the same month there was a meeting between Jiyane and the former President Frederik Willem de Klerk , who had left his old party, the New National Party (NNP), when he did not want to see it join the African National Congress (ANC) . De Klerk announced that he wanted to continue following the party's path, since the end of the NNP had left a gap in the South African party landscape.
development
By converting the IFP parliamentary group in the South African parliament - the floor crossing that was possible at the time - the party was able to win four seats there. In the following year, however, tensions arose in the new party. Three of the IFP MPs who had followed Jiyane to Nadeco returned to their old party in April 2006, seeing Nadeco as a Jiyane-only party devoid of any IFP independent identity. In August of that year, Jiyane was also removed from his new party by the party executive after he had removed three members of parliament (two national and one in the KwaZulu-Natals Provincial Legislature ). The dismissals of the three members of parliament were lifted by the party executive. Hawu Mbatha, Jiyane's deposed MP in KwaZulu-Natal, took over the party leadership. Before joining Nadeco, Mbatha had been chairman of the African Christian Democratic Party in his province and had already been unable to come to an agreement with Jiyane about who should replace Treasurer General John Aulsebrook, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in May 2006. Aulsebrook had been another prominent former IFP member and held the function of party spokesman. Two other key members had been violently killed in the past five months.
The tensions within the party continued in 2007. Jiyane had meanwhile again announced the formation of a new party called the "South African Democratic Congress" (SADECO), and after the party executive had come to the conclusion that the change of 18 local councils before the 15-day window , within a such a change is officially possible to Jiyane's party was imminent, he arranged for their suspension. This was confirmed in a process in September, but Nadeco was not allowed to replace the councils until the end of the said time window. Immediately after the verdict, the suspended councilors announced the formation of another new party called the Federal Congress (Fedcon) instead of switching to SADECO. This re-establishment led to legal uncertainty, as there is no regulation in the municipal code that deals with the case of the transfer of a suspended municipal council. Through further party changes to other parties such as the IFP, Nadeco had lost 22 of its 24 seats in local parliaments in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The seats taken away by the 18 excluded former Nadeco members were then the subject of a new trial, the Supreme Court in Pietermaritzburg finally ruled in favor of Nadeco, so that the renegades were not entitled to the 18 seats, but had to be filled by replacement elections and the list of candidates for Nadeco .
Election results
In the local elections held in KwaZulu-Natal in 2006, Nadeco won 1.58%, making it the fifth largest party. It was able to achieve a total of 24 seats in local parliaments and in some districts and local municipalities it became quite a power factor, since the IFP there decided to include it in a coalition excluding the ANC.
In the 2009 elections , Nadeco lost all seats at the national and provincial levels.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hanns Seidel Foundation: Republic of South Africa, Monthly Report August 2005 ( Memento of October 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) ( PDF ; archive version)
- ↑ Report at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on February 2, 2015
- ↑ fwdklerk.org.za: "Meeting between FW de Klerk and Ziba Jiyane", August 29, 2005 ( Memento of November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (English; PDF; archive version)
- ↑ mg.co.za: "Nadeco suspends Ziba Jiyane", August 8, 2006 ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ dailynews.co.za: "Nadedo hit by death of key MP", May 15, 2006 (English)
- ↑ int.iol.co.za: "Nadeco councillors 'facing a bleak future'", September 13, 2007 ( memento of the original from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ sabcnews.com: "Court postpones Nadeco councillors' case", September 27, 2007 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ int.iol.co.za: "Nadeco wins the battle over council seats", December 5, 2007 ( Memento of the original from December 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English)
- ↑ eisa.org.za: "Election Update 2006 No.2", March 30, 2006 (English, PDF; 568 kB)
