Front National (South Africa)
Political party in South Africa
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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 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]
Front National | |
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| Operational Head | Adv Jurg Prinsloo |
| Founded | 7 December 2013 |
| Dissolved | 10 January 2020 |
| Preceded by | Federale 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 (2015) |
| Colours | Red, white and blue |
| Slogan | Jou stem bepaal jou toekoms en die van jou kinders |
| National Assembly seats | 0 / 400 |
Land claim
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 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | - | – | – | – | – |