Overview
- FF+ confirmed Gouws’s membership on Tuesday, marking his return to party politics nearly a year after leaving Parliament.
- Party leader Corne Mulder welcomed him and highlighted his prior roles in Nelson Mandela Bay and the National Assembly as well as an audience of roughly 400,000 across platforms.
- Gouws said the FF+ aligns with his convictions on freedom, self-determination and protecting minority rights, framing the move as a considered decision.
- The DA expelled him in September 2024 after a Federal Legal Commission probe, a decision that followed the resurfacing of a 2010 video with racist language and led to his public apology.
- Commentators say his profile could extend the FF+ reach but question whether the association complicates efforts to grow beyond the party’s traditional Afrikaner base.