The
New Labour Party (NLP) was a minor
South AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland, while Lesotho is an independent country surrounded by South Africa.Modern...
n
political partyA political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns...
founded by
Peter MaraisPeter Marais is a South African politician who participated in the Tricameral Parliament and became the Mayor of Cape Town after the 2000 election and later Premier of the Western Cape province....
via
floor crossing legislationFloor crossing in South Africa was a controversial system under which Members of Parliament, Members of Provincial Legislatures and Local Government councillors could change political party and take their seats with them when they did so...
after he left the
New National PartyThe New National Party was a South African conservative political party formed in 1997 when the National Party pulled out of the Government of National Unity with the African National Congress and decided to change its name in the process. The name change was an attempt to distance itself from its...
in some disrepute. The name was chosen to evoke the former
Labour PartyThe Labour Party was a South African political party founded in 1969 and led for many years by Revd Allan Hendrickse. Although avowedly opposed to apartheid, it participated in the Coloured Persons Representative Council. It opposed the guerrilla struggle of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the call for...
led by the late Reverend
Allan HendrickseHelenard Joe Hendrickse was a South African politician, Congregationalist minister, and teacher. He participated in an act of defiance by swimming at a South African beach reserved for whites only. He was born in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape and died of a heart attack at Port Elizabeth's airport...
as an anti-apartheid
ColouredIn the South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswana and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured refers or referred to an ethnic group of mixed-race people who possess some sub-Saharan African ancestry, but not enough to be considered Black under the law of South Africa...
party. The NLP sought to position itself as the political voice of Coloured people, particularly in the Western Cape Province, but without success. The party won only 0.09% of the vote in the 2004
nationwide electionLegislative elections were held in South Africa on Wednesday, 14 April 2004. The African National Congress of President Thabo Mbeki, which came to power after the end of the apartheid system in 1994, was re-elected with an increased majority....
and 0.67% in the simultaneous election to the Western Cape legislature..
It did not contest the
2009 electionLegislative elections were held in South Africa on Wednesday, 14 April 2004. The African National Congress of President Thabo Mbeki, which came to power after the end of the apartheid system in 1994, was re-elected with an increased majority....
, instead supporting the formation of a new party, the
Christian Democratic AllianceThe Christian Democratic Alliance is a minor political party in South Africa, an alliance of five Christian Democratic parties: the Alliance for Community Transformation, the Christian Democratic Party, the Federation of Democrats, the New Labour Party, and the Party vir Christelike Politiek...
(CDA), along with a number of other parties.
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The
New Labour Party (NLP) was a minor
South AfricaThe Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland, while Lesotho is an independent country surrounded by South Africa.Modern...
n
political partyA political party is a political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within government, usually by participating in electoral campaigns...
founded by
Peter MaraisPeter Marais is a South African politician who participated in the Tricameral Parliament and became the Mayor of Cape Town after the 2000 election and later Premier of the Western Cape province....
via
floor crossing legislationFloor crossing in South Africa was a controversial system under which Members of Parliament, Members of Provincial Legislatures and Local Government councillors could change political party and take their seats with them when they did so...
after he left the
New National PartyThe New National Party was a South African conservative political party formed in 1997 when the National Party pulled out of the Government of National Unity with the African National Congress and decided to change its name in the process. The name change was an attempt to distance itself from its...
in some disrepute. The name was chosen to evoke the former
Labour PartyThe Labour Party was a South African political party founded in 1969 and led for many years by Revd Allan Hendrickse. Although avowedly opposed to apartheid, it participated in the Coloured Persons Representative Council. It opposed the guerrilla struggle of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the call for...
led by the late Reverend
Allan HendrickseHelenard Joe Hendrickse was a South African politician, Congregationalist minister, and teacher. He participated in an act of defiance by swimming at a South African beach reserved for whites only. He was born in Uitenhage in the Eastern Cape and died of a heart attack at Port Elizabeth's airport...
as an anti-apartheid
ColouredIn the South African, Namibian, Zambian, Botswana and Zimbabwean context, the term Coloured refers or referred to an ethnic group of mixed-race people who possess some sub-Saharan African ancestry, but not enough to be considered Black under the law of South Africa...
party. The NLP sought to position itself as the political voice of Coloured people, particularly in the Western Cape Province, but without success. The party won only 0.09% of the vote in the 2004
nationwide electionLegislative elections were held in South Africa on Wednesday, 14 April 2004. The African National Congress of President Thabo Mbeki, which came to power after the end of the apartheid system in 1994, was re-elected with an increased majority....
and 0.67% in the simultaneous election to the Western Cape legislature..
It did not contest the
2009 electionLegislative elections were held in South Africa on Wednesday, 14 April 2004. The African National Congress of President Thabo Mbeki, which came to power after the end of the apartheid system in 1994, was re-elected with an increased majority....
, instead supporting the formation of a new party, the
Christian Democratic AllianceThe Christian Democratic Alliance is a minor political party in South Africa, an alliance of five Christian Democratic parties: the Alliance for Community Transformation, the Christian Democratic Party, the Federation of Democrats, the New Labour Party, and the Party vir Christelike Politiek...
(CDA), along with a number of other parties. The CDA failed to win a seat.