Dikwankwetla Party of South Africa

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Dikwankwetla Party of South Africa is a political party in the Free State province, South Africa. The party was founded by Kenneth Mopeli in 1975. The party governed the bantustan state of QwaQwa from 1975-1994.

It was one of the signatories of the National Peace Accord, but later withdrew.[1] [2]

In the first non-racial elections held in South Africa in 1994 the party contested both parliamentary and provincial elections. It won 19,451 votes in the parliamentary elections (0.1% of nationwide vote) and 21,877 votes in the provincial elections in the Free State.

Ahead of the 2004 elections DPSA entered into an electoral pact with the Pan-Africanist Congress, after renouncing their pact with the Democratic Alliance.[3] DPSA candidates contested on the PAC parliamentary lists. DPSA did however contest the provincial elections in the Free State, were it got 9,806 votes (0.97% of the votes in that province). In the municipality of Maluti a Phofung (formerly the QwaQwa state) the party got 8,493 votes (6.7%). The party also has some small base of support in the central parts of the Free State.

Today the party is led by Moeketsi Lebesa.