5-791: The National Coloured Congress ( NCC ; previously the Cape Coloured Congress , CCC ) is a South African 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 Western Cape , and later nationally. Some policies proposed at some point by the party include obtaining officially "full recognition" of Cape Coloured people as "First Nation descendants", meaning descendants of
10-562: A tiler and plumber. Adams got involved in politics in 2018 after the Siqalo riots in Mitchells Plain in 2018. After searching for his brother, who had been arrested, an interview shot him to prominence. In June 2018, Adams co-founded "Gatvol Capetonian", an organisation which described itself as "a group of gatvol [fed up] Capetonians who are sick of racist B.E.E. policies , poor service delivery and crime". In 2020, Adams founded
15-582: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fadiel Adams Fadiel Adams (born 14 June 1976) is a South African politician and founder of the National Coloured Congress . Adams was the third of six children. His father was a builder and his mother a seamstress. Adams dropped out of school in Grade 11, and got involved in gangsterism and drugs. By age 30, he was homeless and addicted. After going clean, Adams worked as
20-829: The City of Cape Town . The party won seven council seats in Cape Town and one seat in the Saldanha Bay Local Municipality . In 2023, the party renamed itself from the Cape Coloured Congress to the National Coloured Congress, and contested the 2024 South African general election , winning two seats in the national parliament and one in the Western Cape. This article about a South African political party
25-485: The Khoisan 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
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