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Political Party in Apartheid South Africa
Venda National Party Dzangano la lushaka la venda
LeaderPatrick Mphephu (First)
Frank Ravele (Last)
FounderPatrick Mphephu
Founded1993
Dissolved5 April 1990
IdeologyVenda Nationalism
Authoritarianism
Regional affiliationNational Party (South Africa)

The National Party of Venda was a political party in the Bantustan Republic of Venda which was founded around 1973.

Description

In 1973 it won 5 of the 18 available seats. By 1978 it had increased its seat share to 11 our of 42 seats, before winning 41 of the 45 seats in 1984.

Whilst the opposition Venda Independence People's Party (VIPP) won the majority of seats for almost every election, leader Patrick Mphephu used a variety of means to assert control, including courting the appointed chiefs that constituted a majority of the parliament in 1973, and using emergency powers to detain VIPP legislators until he was appointed prime minister in 1978, so the party effectively ran Venda as a One-Party state.

Mphephu became president in 1979 after Venda's notional independence. He died in 1988 and was replaced by Frank Ravele. Ravele and the National Party of Venda were overthrown in the 1990 Venda coup d'état.

References

  1. "National Party (NP) | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za.
  2. "Venda: a one party state of affairs".
  3. "Elections in South Africa". africanelections.tripod.com.
  4. "Venda" (PDF).
  5. "Security forces stage coup in S. African homeland - UPI Archives". UPI.
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