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The South African Labour Party [1] (Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Arbeidersparty), was a South African political party formed in March 1910 in the newly created Union of South Africa following discussions between trade unions, the Transvaal Independent Labour Party, and the Natal Labour Party. [2]
The Labour Party of South Africa [1] (Afrikaans: Arbeidersparty van Suid-Afrika) was a South African political party founded in 1969 and led for many years by Allan Hendrickse. Although avowedly opposed to apartheid , it participated in the Coloured Persons Representative Council . [ 2 ]
The Labour Party is a South African political party that emerged from the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union in 2024. The party intended to contest the 2024 South African general election [ 1 ] but was unable to supply the required signatures in time to do so.
As a largely working-class seat, Jeppes was an early stronghold of the South African Labour Party.At the first general election in 1910, the seat was won by Labour party leader Frederic Creswell, who moved to the newly created seat of Bezuidenhout in 1915, and the rump Jeppes seat (renamed Siemert for this election only) was won by fellow Labour member Harry Sampson.
This is a list of political parties in South Africa. For most of its recent history , South Africa has functioned as a democratic state but with a one-party dominant system , with the African National Congress (ANC) as the governing party.
Like the rest of Durban, Durban Greyville was a largely English-speaking seat. After electing an independent in its first election, it was won by the South African Labour Party in a 1912 by-election, and would become a stronghold for the party. This was aided by the separation of its northern, more middle-class parts to form the Stamford Hill ...
South West African Labour Party, Namibia, active circa 1970s; Labour Party (Nigeria) Labour Party of Sine Saloum, Senegal, active circa 1960; Tanzania Labour Party;
The following year, South African Party candidate George William Hawley took the seat, but held it for only a few months, with Forsyth taking it back in a by-election later that year. The SAP narrowly won it back in 1924, and narrowly defended it in 1929 despite the Labour candidate being the former Cape Town Castle MP Morris Alexander. C. W. A.