Patriotic Alliance (South Africa)
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Patriotic Alliance
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| President | Gayton McKenzie |
| Secretary-General | Kenny Kunene |
| National Organiser | Anthony Mlata |
| Founded | 30 November 2013 |
| Headquarters | Block A3, N1 City Goodwood, Cape Town |
| Youth wing | Zareef Minty and Davin The-kisho |
| Colours | Green, blue, black, red, brown, yellow, white |
| National Assembly seats |
0 / 400
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| http://paparty.org.za | |
The Patriotic Alliance (PA) is a South African political party, formed in November 2013 by, among others, one-time convicted bank robber turned motivational speaker, author and businessman Gayton McKenzie and former convicted fraudster turned businessman and socialite Kenny Kunene.
The party at its announcement stated that it intended to contest the 2014 national and provincial elections in South Africa, with a particular focus on the Western Cape province, although it would also attempt to have a particular presence in the Free State, Gauteng, Northern Cape and North West. On March 12, 2013 the party paid deposit fees to the Independent Electoral Commission to contest nationally and in four provinces on May 7, 2014. On its official website and elsewhere, the party has described itself as a credible alternative to both the Democratic Alliance (DA), which is the ruling party in the Western Cape, and the African National Congress, which governs the rest of the country. These parties have each, in turn, dismissed the PA as a credible threat and have said that in their view the party would disappear from the political landscape and not make a "significant contribution to the political discourse", which had proven to be the case with "smaller parties" in South Africa's past.
The party fared relatively poorly in its first national and provincial election, garnering 0,07% of the national vote, with its best showing 0,4% in the Western Cape. The party had hoped to force a coalition in the Western Cape, but the DA's share of the vote in fact grew after the election.
The PA gained its first elected representatives in the 2016 municipal elections. Although the party only received 0,06% of the national vote, it picked up seats in the metropolitan municipalities of Cape Town, Nelson Mandela Bay, Johannesburg and Ekurhuleni, aided in part by the low threshold for representation in these councils. It also picked up a seat in Tokologo Local Municipality with a strong 10% of the vote. The party currently has 5 councillors.
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