List of movements/Political Parties/South Africa

Parties

Parliamentary

• Tripartite Alliance
  • African National Congress
    • ANC under Nelson Mandela's leadership (1994-1999)
  • South African Communist Party
  • Congress of South African Trade Unions
• Demokratiese Alliansie (Democratic Alliance)
• Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
• IQembu leNkatha yeNkululeko (Inkatha Freedom Party)
• Vryheidsfront Plus (Freedom Front Plus)
• Afrika Christen Demokratiese Party (African Christian Democratic Party)
• United Democratic Movement
• African Transformation Movement
• Good
• National Freedom Party
• African Independent Congress
• Congress of the People
• Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
• الجماعة (The Congregation)

Extraparliamentary

• ActionSA
• Patriotic Alliance
• Abantu Batho Congress
• African People's Convention
• Cape Coloured Congress
• United Christian Democratic Party
• Plaaslike Besorgde Inwoners (Concerned Local Residents)
• Bolsheviks Party of South Africa
• United Independent Movement
• African Democratic Change
• Better Residents Association
• Azanian People's Organisation
• Democratic Liberal Congress
• International Revelation Congress
• Power of Africans Unity
• Afrikan Alliance of Social Democrats
• Africa Restoration Alliance
• Minority Front
• People's Revolutionary Movement
• Cape Independence Party
• Nasionale Konserwatiewe Party van Suid-Afrika (National Conservative Party of South Africa)
• Agang South Africa (Let Us Build South Africa)
• Capitalist Party of South Africa

Historical

• Independent Democrats (2003 - 2014)
• Federale Alliansie (Federal Alliance) (1998 - 2007)
• Afrikaner Eenheidsbeweging (Afrikaner Unity Movement) (1998 - 2003)
• Nuwe Nasionale Party (New National Party) (1997 - 2005)
• Nasionale Party (National Party) (1990 - 1997)
• Demokratiese Party (Democratic Party) (1989 - 2000)
• Konserwatiewe Party van Suid-Afrika (Conservative Party of South Africa) (1982 - 2004)
• Progressiewe Federale Party (Progressive Federal Party) (1977 - 1989)
• New Republic Party (1977 - 1988)
• Suid-Afrikaanse Party (South African Party) (1977 - 1980)
• Arbeidersparty van Suid-Afrika (Labour Party of South Africa) (1969 - 1994)
• Nasionale Unie (National Union) (1960 - 1966)
• Progressiewe Party (Progressive Party) (1959 - 1975)
• Nasionale Party (National Party) (1948 - 1990)
• Verenigde Party (United Party) (1934 - 1977)
• Dominion Party (1934-1948)
• Nasionale Party (National Party) (1914 - 1948)
• Suid-Afrikaanse Arbeidersparty (South African Labour Party) (1910 - 1958)
• Suid-Afrikaanse Party (South African Party) (1910-1934)
• Unionist Party (1910-1920)
• South African Party (Cape Colony) (1896-1910)
• Progressive Party (Cape Colony) (1890-1910)

Presidents/Prime Ministers

Pre-Union National Leaders

• Jan van Riebeeck (Cape Colony, 1652-1662)
• Cecil Rhodes (Cape Colony, 1890-1896)
• Nicolaas Waterboer (West Griqualand, 1852-1896)
• Shaka Zulu (Zululand, 1816-1828)
• Cetshwayo (Zululand, 1873-1879)
• Frederick Moor (Natal, 1906-1910)
• Paul Kruger (Transvaal, 1883-1900)
• M.T. Steyn (Oranje, 1896-1902)

State Presidents & Prime Ministers of South Africa

Prior to Pieter Botha's presidency, the state president was largely ceremonial until the offices of president and prime minister were merged in 1984

• Louis Botha (1910-1919)
• Jan Smuts (1919-1924, 1939-1948)
• James Barry Munnik Hertzog (1924-1939)
• Daniel François Malan (1948-1954)
• Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom (1954-1958)
• Hendrik Verwoerd (1958-1966)
• Balthazar Johannes Vorster (1966-1978)
• Pieter Willem Botha (1978-1989)
• Frederik Willem de Klerk (1989-1994)

Post-Apartheid Presidents

• Nelson Mandela ( ANC, 1994-1999)
• Thabo Mbeki ( ANC, 1999-2008)
• Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri ( ANC, 2008)
• Kgalema Motlanthe ( ANC, 2008-2009)
• Jacob Zuma ( ANC, 2009-2018)
• Cyril Ramaphosa ( ANC, 2018-)