Bushbuckridge Residents Association

Bushbuckridge Residents Association
President Delta Mokoena
Split from ANC
National Assembly seats
0 / 400

The Bushbuckridge Residents Association is a minor South African political party formed by disgruntled African National Congress members.

It aims to serve the residents of the Bushbuckridge region in Mpumalanga.

Election results

The party won its first seats at local government level in the 2011 Municipal Elections, and after the 2011 Municipal Elections holds seats in the Bushbuckridge and Bela-Bela Local Mnicipalities.

The party also won one seat in the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature in the 2014 General Election.

National elections

Election Total votes Share of vote Seats +/– Government
2014 15,271 0.08
0 / 400
Steady ±0 in opposition

Provincial elections

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 - 0/63 - 0/30 - 0/73 - 0/80 - 0/49 1.15% 1/30 - 0/33 - 0.30 - 0/42

Municipal elections

Election Votes %
2016[1] 73,468 0.19%

Vigilantism

In February 2017, the party's president, Delta Mokoena, began a 10-year prison sentence for vigilantism. He was convicted in 2013 of threatening to burn a resident and his house if the man, whom he accused of having a thief as a son, did not leave the area.

The party has been accused of 'causing a reign of terror', making use of kangaroo courts, torturing suspected criminals, and banishing residents it accused of being witches or Satanists.[2]

References

  1. "Results Summary - All Ballots" (PDF). elections.org.za. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  2. sama Yende, Sizwe. "President of ‘vigilantic’ political party jailed for intimidation". news24.com. City Press.
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