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Independent Civic Organisation Of South Africa – 2019

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Ahead of the 8 May National Elections you would do well to acquaint yourself with the Political Parties registered on the National level for the elections.

These political parties are contesting for seats in the 2019 National Assembly elections on 8 May 2019.
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Today we introduce you to: Independent Civic Organisation Of South Africa – ICOSA

Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa
Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa

Drive through the dorpies of the rural Western Cape and you’ll count as many ICOSA (Independent Civic Organisation Of South Africa – ICOSA) posters as you will of the larger parties. Founded in 2006 by former ANC politician Truman Prince, Icosa brands itself mainly as a political home for “coloured” South Africans. It won just over 14,000 votes nationally in 2014. The party had a taste of political power in the Kannaland municipality in the Karoo, which the DA said in 2016 had left the municipality more than R37-million in debt and on the verge of collapse in terms of the supply of water and electricity.

The Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa (ICOSA) is a minor South African political party. It was founded by former Karoo District Municipality manager Truman Prince, who was expelled from the African National Congress (ANC) in 2006. He was reinstated as municipal manager by the municipal council in June, 2007, after a protracted legal battle, but was fired from his post in August of that same year through provincial vote. Jeffrey Donson, formerly of the National People’s Party (NPP), is the current president of ICOSA.

The Democratic Alliance/ICOSA coalition took power in the Kannaland Local Municipality in August 2006 when the short-lived ANC-led coalition pact with the DA collapsed. The coalition of the DA and ICOSA collapsed when two ICOSA and three ANC councillors crossed the floor giving the NPP five seats out of nine in the council or an outright majority (the only such council in SA that was governed by this fledgling new party at the time). The DA refused to recognise the new NPP-led council administration as it alleged that the two ICOSA defectors were sacked prior to the floor-crossing window being open and were then challenged in the Cape High Court. As such its former mayor refused to “step down” pending the outcome of the case, creating uncertainty and instability in this beleaguered council.

In the 2011 municipal election, ICOSA regained a plurality in the Kannaland municipality with three seats while the ANC and the DA won two each.

ICOSA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/icosa.founder/

This information is gathered from the IEC and the above party website or publicly available documents.

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