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The Peoples Independent Civic Organisation

political party in South Africa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2022
Entity authorityQ16935006 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Peoples Independent Civic Organisation (TPICO) is a minor political party in the West Coast District Municipality in South Africa. It had one councillor on the council of the Matzikama Local Municipality and one on the council of the Swartland Local Municipality between 2011 and 2016. In Matzikama it formed part of the governing coalition with the African National Congress and the New Generation Party until the Democratic Alliance won control of the council in 2016.

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The public source identifies “The Peoples Independent Civic Organisation” as political party in South Africa. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Peoples, Independent and Civic.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Peoples, Independent and Civic providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “The Peoples Independent Civic Organisation” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.