ECOPEACE Partyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

ECOPEACE Party, previously eThekwini ECOPEACE, and before that eThekwini Ecoparty, is a nationally registered environmental political party in South Africa that was founded in 1995. eThekwini is the isiZulu name for Durban. The isiZulu ECOPEACE motto Buhlakuleni uButhi, Yitshaleni iMithi means ‘Uproot Poisons, Grow Trees (medicine)’. It entered the 1996 Municipal Elections but failed to win a seat. In 2000 it won one seat in the eThekwini Municipal Council. This was the only Green seat in South Africa. ECOPEACE was not re-elected in the 2006 local elections. However its sister organisation Operation Khanyisa Movement (OKM) gained a seat in the Johannesburg City Council in those elections. OKM is a fellow member of the Socialist Green Coalition (SGC).