Front National (South Africa)

Front National (Afrikaans: Front Nasionaal, FN) was a South African far-right political party formed in late 2013 as a successor to the Federale Vryheidsparty.[1] The party promotes secession and Afrikaner self-determination. Front National strikes no distinction between English-speaking Whites and Afrikaners in South Africa.[2] The party reformed in January 2020 to Afrikaner self-determination Party[3]

Front National
Operational HeadAdv Jurg Prinsloo
FoundedDecember 2013
DissolvedJanuary 2020
Preceded byFederale Vryheidsparty
Succeeded byAfrikaner Selfbeskikkingsparty
HeadquartersPretoria, Gauteng
Student wingFront National Student Movement / Front Nasionaal Studente Beweging
Youth wingFront Nationaal Jeug / Front National Youth
IdeologyAfrikaner nationalism
Cultural conservatism
Self-determination Volkstaat
Political positionConservative
International affiliationWorld National-Conservative Movement
Colours   
Red, white and blue
SloganJou stem bepaal jou toekoms en die van jou kinders
National Assembly seats
0 / 400

Land claim

On 24 April 2014, FN submitted a land claim to the Land Claims Commissioner in Pretoria on behalf of the Afrikaner nation. The new land claims process has not yet been finalised however.[4][5][6]

Activism

Clive Derby-Lewis

Front National advocated the release of Clive Derby-Lewis, who by 2015 was the oldest prisoner in the South African Correctional Services at the age of 79. He had been behind bars since 1993. Derby-Lewis made various bids for parole from June 2010, when he was diagnosed with lung cancer.[7] In February, 2014, Derby-Lewis and his co-conspirator in the Hani murder, Janusz Waluś, lives were threatened when they were stabbed several times and had their heads struck with locks by fellow inmates.[8] It had been the stance of Front National that there was political interference with his parole application.[9][10]

The party approached the United Nations Commission on Human Rights over the handling of Derby-Lewis's medical parole application.[11]

Derby-Lewis was released in June 2015, and died in November 2016.[12]

South African Human Rights Commission

On 14 January 2016 the party declared intentions to make a complaint against Democratic Alliance Leader Mmusi Maimane with the South African Human Rights Commission concerning remarks he made on Twitter stating "I am angry when I go shopping at certain shops – white people are shopping and black people are working.”[13][14]

On 24 January 2019, Willie Cloete, the leader, and a number of followers of the National Conservative Party joined Front National.

Affiliation

Front National has civil affiliations with Boere Krisis Aksie (BKA),[15] which is self-described as a "Politieke drukgroep vir selfbeskikking en wit belange in Suid Afrika", translated as "[a] Political pressure group for self-determination and white interests in South Africa".[16]

Front National has media affiliations with South Africa Today (SAT).

Elections

The party contested the 2014 general election in the national ballot and the provincial ballot for Gauteng.[17] and the 2019 election on the national ballot only, failing to win any seats on either occasion.

Parliament

National Assembly
Election year # of
overall votes
% of
overall vote
# of
overall seats won
+/–
2014 5,138 0.03%
0 / 400
2019 7,144 0.04%
0 / 400
±0

Provincial ballot

Election Eastern Cape Free State Gauteng Kwazulu-Natal Limpopo Mpumalanga North-West Northern Cape Western Cape
% Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats % Seats
2014[18] 0.05% 0/73 -

See also

References

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