Front National (South Africa)

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Front National
Operational HeadAdv Jurg Prinsloo
Founded7 December 2013 (2013-12-07)
Dissolved10 January 2020 (2020-01-10)
Preceded byFederale Vryheidsparty
Succeeded by Afrikaner Self-determination Party
Headquarters Pretoria, Gauteng
Student wing Front National Student Movement / Front Nasionaal Studente Beweging
Youth wing Front Nationaal Jeug / Front National Youth
Ideology Afrikaner nationalism
Cultural conservatism
Volkstaat
Political position Far-right
International affiliation World National-Conservative Movement
Colours   
Red, white and blue
SloganJou stem bepaal jou toekoms en die van jou kinders
National Assembly seats
0 / 400

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  [ af ]. [1] The party promoted secession and Afrikaner nationalism. Front National strikes no distinction between English-speaking Whites and Afrikaners in South Africa. [2] The party reformed in January 2020 as the Afrikaner Self-determination Party. [3]

Contents

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 5,1380.03%
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2019 7,1440.04%
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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-

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