Pan Africanist Movement Explained

Country:South Africa
Pan Africanist Movement
Foundation:2008
Split:Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
Ideology:Pan-africanism

The Pan Africanist Movement is a minor South African political party founded by Thami ka Plaatjie and others from a faction in the Pan Africanist Congress. After a year of in-fighting between supporters of Ka Plaatjie and PAC president Letlapa Mphahlele, the high court ruled that ka Plaatjie's faction could not organise under the name or colours of the Pan Africanist Congress, and a new party was formed to accommodate the Ka Plaatjie faction.[1]

The party was routed in the 2009 elections and Ka Plaatjie resigned in December 2009, joining the African National Congress in 2010.[2]

The party contested the 2014 elections, their share of the vote shrinking to 0.02%.

Election results

National elections

ElectionVotes%Seats
20095,4260.03%0
2014[3] 3,8150.02%0

Municipal elections

|-! Election! Votes! %|-! 2016[4] | 1,736| 0.00%|-|}

Notes and References

  1. Web site: PAM to unveil logos, colours . News24 . 29 November 2008 . 20 April 2016.
  2. Web site: Ex-PAM president defects to ANC . News24 . 24 May 2010 . 20 April 2016.
  3. Web site: 2014 National and Provincial Elections Results - 2014 National and Provincial Election Results . IEC . 20 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140510231542/http://www.elections.org.za/resultsNPE2014/ . 10 May 2014 . dead .
  4. Web site: Results Summary - All Ballots . elections.org.za . 11 August 2016.