History
ECOPEACE entered municipal elections in 1996 but failed to win any 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, but its sister organisation Operation Khanyisa Movement (OKM), a fellow member of the Socialist Green Coalition (SGC) gained a seat in the Johannesburg City Council that year.
Although ECOPEACE is environmentalist in the broadest meaning of seeking sustaianability of natural, built, social, economic, and political aspects etc. Global climate disruption and renewable energy production are major concerns.
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