| Independent Democrats | |
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| President | Patricia de Lille |
| Secretary-General | Haniff Hoosen |
| Chairperson | Mervyn Cirota |
| Founded | 21 June 2003 |
| Headquarters | Cape Town, Western Cape |
| Ideology | Social democracy, Liberalism |
| Official colours | Orange red |
| National Assembly seats |
4 / 400
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| NCOP seats |
2 / 90
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| www.id.org.za | |
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The Independent Democrats are a South African political party, formed by former Pan Africanist Congress member Patricia de Lille in 2003 via floor crossing legislation.[1] The party's platform is basically populist and anti-corruption, with a mixture of right-liberal proposals and left-wing sensibilities.
On August 15, 2010, the party announced plans to merge with the larger Democratic Alliance as part of a plan to challenge the governing African National Congress (ANC).[2] The party's strongholds are the Northern and Western Cape.
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Ahead of the national elections in 2009, the ID launched a manifesto promising that, if elected to power, they would increase the staffing of the South African Police Service to 200,000, enlist 5,000 caseworkers to operate in crime-stricken communities, make South Africa a leader in renewable energy and finance a minimum social grant by taxing luxury goods, tobacco and alcohol. In addition they vowed that an "ID government would fire a minister whose department received a qualified audit two years in a row."[3]
| Election | Votes | % | Seats |
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| 2009 | 162,915 | 0.92 | 4 |
| 2004 | 269,765 | 1.70 | 7 |
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