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eventREF E-0012777Revised

19 October 1988

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned

Updated
30 Sep 2019
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned

The one-year-old parliamentary opposition People Progressive Party (PPP) under the leadership of the former African National Congress (ANC) member Rocky Malebane-Metsing, was banned in Bophuthatswana by President Lucas Mangope. He announced his banning order immediately after the aborted coup attempt by the PPP. Mangope announced that in terms of the 1979 Internal Security Act the PPP was engaged in illegal activities that would endanger the public safety.

How we know this

  1. 01 Human Rights Watch, (1991) 'The Misery in Bophuthatswana: hrw.org" From:Human Rights Watch,[online] Available at: www.hrw.org [Accessed on 10 October 2013]
  2. 02South African History Online, The People's Progressive Party (PPP) is banned,From:South African History Online,[onlinre] Available at: www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed on 10 October 2013]

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

Cite this entry

South African History Online. (2011, March 16). The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012777

South African History Online (2011) 'The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012777 (Accessed: 6 November 2026).

South African History Online, The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012777, (accessed 6 November 2026).

"The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012777. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

South African History Online. "The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is banned." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012777.

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