Editing ECOPEACE Party (section)

==History==
ECOPEACE entered municipal elections in 1996 but failed to win a seat. In 2000 it won one seat in the eThekwini Municipal Council;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.org.za/content/Default.aspx |title=IEC (Electoral Commission of South Africa) |publisher=Elections.org.za |access-date=17 October 2011}}</ref> this was the only [[Green party|Green]] seat in South Africa. ECOPEACE was not re-elected in the 2006 local elections,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ecopeace.co.za/members.html |title=Ecopeace |publisher=Ecopeace |access-date=17 October 2011}}</ref> but its sister organisation Operation Khanyisa Movement (OKM), a fellow member of the [[Socialism|Socialist]] Green Coalition (SGC) gained a seat in the [[Johannesburg]] City Council that year.

Although ECOPEACE is environmentalist in the broadest meaning of seeking sustainability of natural, built, social, economic, and political aspects etc. Global climate disruption and renewable energy production are major concerns.