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)

List of People

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 P. W. Botha's presidency, the position of 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 South Africa

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-)

Deputy Presidents

• Frederik Willem de Klerk (1994-1996)
• Thabo Mbeki (1994-1999)
• Jacob Zuma (1999-2005)
• Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (2005-2008)
• Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile (2008-2009)
• Kgalema Motlanthe (2009-2014)
• Cyril Ramaphosa (2014-2018)
• David Mabuza (2018-2023)
• Paul Mashatile (2023-)

Leaders of the Opposition

• De Villiers Graaff (1956-1977)
• Andries Treurnicht (1987-1993)
• Tony Leon (1999-2007)
• Mmusi Maimane (2014-2019)
• John Steenhuisen (2019-)