The National Coloured Congress (NCC; previously the Cape Coloured Congress, CCC) is a South African

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political party led by Fadiel Adams, the founder of the Gatvol Capetonian Movement. The party was formed in August 2020 and focuses on issues affecting Coloured South Africans, initially in the

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, and later nationally. Some policies proposed at some point by the party include obtaining officially "full recognition" of

Cape Coloured Cape Coloureds () are a South African group of Coloured people who are from the Cape region in South Africa which consists of the Western Cape, Northern Cape and the Eastern Cape. Their ancestry comes from the interracial mixing between th ...

people as "First Nation descendants", meaning descendants of the

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people, fighting against "all forms" of discrimination and notably against coloured people, and also discrimination against LGBTQ people, the eradication of gender-based violence, the prohibition of comprehensive sex education in schools, and the reintroduction of the death penalty for rapists and murderers. The party contested the 2021 municipal elections with Adams running as the party's mayoral candidate in the

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. The party won seven council seats in Cape Town and one seat in the

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. In 2023, the party renamed itself from the Cape Coloured Congress to the National Coloured Congress, and contested the

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, winning two seats in the national parliament and one in the Western Cape. In May 2025, the NCC tabled, and subsequently lost, a motion of no confidence against

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Geordin Hill-Lewis Geordin Gwyn Hill-Lewis (born 31 December 1986) is a South African politician who is the Mayor of Cape Town. A member of the Democratic Alliance (South Africa), Democratic Alliance, he was elected mayor in November 2021. Hill-Lewis attended Edge ...

. Hill-Lewis was shown to be broadly popular amongst his fellow

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members, when he won the motion by a significant margin (138 against vs 46 in favor). The motion was seen to be a spiteful endeavor to detract from an ongoing court case the

has against the NCC's leader, Fadiel Adams, for

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remarks he made. Hill-Lewis said at the time of the motion that the NCC's actions were frivolous, and that the party should be better for the residents of Cape Town in terms of their general interactions in Council meetings.

Election results

National Assembly elections

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National Council of Provinces

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Provincial elections

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Eastern Cape The Eastern Cape ( ; ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, and its largest city is Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth). Due to its climate and nineteenth-century towns, it is a common location for tourists. It is also kno ...

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Gauteng Gauteng ( , ; Sotho-Tswana languages, Sotho-Tswana for 'place of gold'; or ) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts f ...

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Kwazulu-Natal KwaZulu-Natal (, also referred to as KZN) is a Provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu people, Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu language, Zulu) and ...

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Limpopo Limpopo () is the northernmost Provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa. It is named after the Limpopo River, which forms the province's western and northern borders. The term Limpopo is derived from Rivombo (Livombo/Lebombo), a ...

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Mpumalanga Mpumalanga () is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Nguni languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It shares bor ...

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Northern Cape The Northern Cape ( ; ; ) is the largest and most sparsely populated Provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley, South Africa, Kimberley. It includes ...

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Municipal elections

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References

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