Freedom Front
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Freedom Front Plus
Vryheidsfront Plus |
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| Leader | Pieter Groenewald |
| Chairperson | Anton Alberts |
| Founded | 1 March 1994 |
| Headquarters | Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Ideology |
Afrikaner nationalism, Christian democracy, Economic liberalism, Social conservatism |
| Political position | Right-wing |
| National affiliation | Collective for Democracy |
| International affiliation | Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization |
| Colours | Green and Dark orange |
| National Assembly seats |
4 / 400
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| NCOP seats |
0 / 90
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| Website | |
| www |
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The Freedom Front Plus (FF+; Afrikaans: Vryheidsfront Plus, VF+) is a national South African political party that was formed (as the Freedom Front) in 1994. It is led by Pieter Groenewald. Current policy positions include amending affirmative action and land reform to protect the interests of Afrikaners.
Along with other smaller parties, the FF+ has entered into coalition with the larger Democratic Alliance (DA) after the 2016 municipal elections to govern Johannesburg, Tshwane and several other municipalities.
The Freedom Front was founded on 1 March 1994 by members of the Afrikaner community under Constand Viljoen, after he had left the Afrikaner Volksfront amidst disagreements. Seeking to achieve his goals through political means, Viljoen registered the Freedom Front with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on 4 March 1994 to take part in the April 1994 general elections. (This date has also been given as 7 March.) On 12 March 1994 Viljoen handed in a list of candidates for the FF to the IEC, confirming that his party would take part in the elections. Viljoen considered the election as a chance for an unofficial referendum, and urged Afrikaners to vote for the Freedom Front in their numbers to show support for the idea of a "volkstaat", a separate nation for Afrikaners away from the rest of South Africa.
In the election, under the leadership of General Viljoen, the Freedom Front received 2.2% of the national vote (with 424,555 votes cast), earning nine seats in the National Assembly, and 3.3% (with 639,643 votes cast) of the combined vote to the nine provincial legislatures. This suggested that many Afrikaners had split their vote. The party performed the best in the rural areas of the former Transvaal and Orange Free State, and was noted by the new deputy president Thabo Mbeki as representing possibly as much as half the Afrikaner voting population in these areas, with the strongest support among farmers and the working class.
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