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Party abbreviation: SRWP
In the 2019 elections, the Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party will be contesting nationally and in all nine provinces.
The party was registered with the IEC in September 2018.
It was launched on 6 April 2019 by the country’s largest trade union, the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa).
Irvin Jim is SRWP’s national chairperson.
The party wants to nationalise the South African Reserve Bank and restructure personal income tax to make it directly proportional to earnings.
Its manifesto was not available at the time of writing.
