Better Residents Association

The Better Residents Association is a minor South African political party formed by disgruntled African National Congress members in 2011. Initially formed as the Bushbuckridge Residents Association, the party changed its name in order to contest elections in all provinces.[1]

Better Residents Association
PresidentDelta Mokoena
Split fromAfrican National Congress
IdeologyLocalism
National Assembly seats
0 / 400
Website
www.facebook.com/Better-Residents-Association-BRA-553564971814057/

Vigilantism

In February 2017, the party's president, Delta Mokoena, began a 10-year prison sentence for vigilantism. He was convicted in 2013 of threatening to burn a resident and his house if the man, whom he accused of having a thief as a son, did not leave the area.[2]

The party has been accused of 'causing a reign of terror', making use of kangaroo courts, torturing suspected criminals, and banishing residents it accused of being witches or Satanists.[2]

Election results

The party won its first seats at local government level in the 2011 municipal elections, and after the 2016 municipal elections holds seats in the Bushbuckridge and Bela-Bela local municipalities.[3]

The party also won one seat in the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature in the 2014 general election, although it lost it in the 2019 election.[4]

National elections
Election Total votes Share of vote Seats +/– Government
2014 15,271 0.08%
0 / 400
 ±0 extraparliamentary
2019 9,179 0.05%
0 / 400
 ±0 extraparliamentary

Provincial elections
Election[5] Eastern Cape Free State Gauteng Kwazulu-Natal Limpopo Mpumalanga North-West Northern Cape Western Cape
%Seats %Seats %Seats %Seats %Seats %Seats %Seats %Seats %Seats
2014 -- -- -- -- -- 1.15%1/30 -- -- --
2019 -- -- 0.010/73 -- 0.040/49 0.72%0/30 -- -- --

Municipal elections
Election Votes %
2016[6] 73,468 0.19%

References
  1. Machaka, Thabiso. "Better Residents Association targeting 3 provinces". Capricorn. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  2. Yende, Sizwe Sama. "President of 'vigilantic' political party jailed for intimidation". news24.com. City Press.
  3. Yende, Sizwe Sama. The BRA the ANC can’t afford to ignore, City-Press News24, 15 August 2016. Retrieved on 24 August 2019.
  4. "Elections 2019: Winners and losers". SABC News. 11 May 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019. and the VF Plus will replace BRA with one seat.
  5. "Results Dashboard". www.elections.org.za. Retrieved 2019-05-11.
  6. "Results Summary - All Ballots" (PDF). elections.org.za. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
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