Founded in 1959, the PAC is a Pan-Africanist, land-centred party holding that the land belongs to Africans ('the rest are visitors'). Its 2026 LGE manifesto centres on land redistribution, township economic revitalisation and municipal accountability.
In the 2021 local elections the PAC won 18 council seats across 16 municipalities, mostly in the Eastern Cape (9), Limpopo (4) and Gauteng (3).
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Other recorded policies from Pan Africanist Congress of Azania
Free care for those unable to pay; mobile facilities.
Free education for all; agriculture becomes compulsory school subject.
Selected policies, not a full manifesto or ballot list. National policies are context, not powers a council can exercise on its own. Local plans can also need other agencies. Read dates and sources before deciding.
Release municipal and unused land to build housing, clinics and schools rather than hold it speculatively
southafricatoday.netExpropriate well-located vacant land held by absentee foreign owners for public good
southafricatoday.netProvide security of tenure to prevent evictions and eliminate housing waiting lists
southafricatoday.netRequire councillors to reside in the wards/communities they serve
southafricatoday.netTurn townships and rural areas from centres of consumption into productive local economies
Top municipal jobs, like the city manager and the head of finance, should be filled by an independent panel. Political parties should have no say in who gets them.
The law should stop the municipality from raising rates and service charges (water, electricity, refuse) by more than inflation each year.
Poor households should get more free water and electricity, even if better-off households pay more to cover it.
The municipality should cut off water and electricity to anyone who does not pay their bill, including businesses and government departments.
Note: SABC and Africa Daily confirm the August 29 launch and Johannesburg candidate. Searches for the primary PDF on party sites and indexed documents did not locate it. pacofazania.org.za is accessible but shows 2020 news; pac.org.za names a rival/old leadership slate, so neither was adopted uncritically as the current Nyhontso party website. Stored identity website retained with this caveat. Q12 is ambiguous: Nyhontso rejects slogans about land invasions while advocating planned land release, without an immediate eviction policy. Q16 cleared because Africanist identity alone is not evidence of a street-renaming policy. Q6 retains 2024 evidence after searching for newer municipal detail.
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Start the quizMunicipal accountability driven by a first-100-days delivery focus
southafricatoday.netWhere the municipality is failing at electricity, water or rubbish removal, it should pay private companies to run those services.
"2024 manifesto favours state-owned production and public energy provision; opposition to private municipal operators is inferred."
The municipality should cancel what poor households still owe on old water and electricity bills.
Every home should be put on prepaid electricity and water meters, including homes that now pay a monthly bill.
The municipality should buy electricity from private producers and from homes with solar panels, instead of only from Eskom.
When the municipality hands out contracts, it should stop giving black-owned businesses preference and choose only on price and ability to do the job.
Security guards, cleaners and other contract workers should become permanent municipal employees, even if that costs more than using private companies.
Before giving anyone a house, a trading permit or a business licence, the municipality should check that they are in the country legally.
Only spaza shops and street traders with a licence should be allowed to trade. Those without one should be shut down.
Only South African citizens and permanent residents should be allowed to own or run spaza shops and street stalls.
When people occupy land or buildings illegally, they should be removed straight away, even if they have nowhere else to go.
"Nyhontso rejects populist land-invasion rhetoric and advocates planned municipal land release; treatment of established occupiers without alternative accommodation is unspecified."
The municipality should take over hijacked and abandoned buildings in the city centre and turn them into affordable housing.
Metro police should get more officers and the power to investigate crimes, not only handle traffic and by-laws.
The municipality should limit the hours taverns and bottle stores may sell alcohol, and close those next to schools and homes.
Renaming streets and public places after people from all of South Africa's history should carry on, even when it costs money and some residents object.
"Inference from PAC's Africanist/decolonial identity (the 'Azania' project and reversing colonial dispossession), which aligns with renaming places to reflect African heritage."