Initially formed as the Bushbuckridge Residents Association, the party changed its name in order to contest elections in all provinces.

[1] In February 2017, the party's president, Delta Mokoena, began a 10-year prison sentence for vigilantism.

He was convicted in 2013 of threatening to burn a resident and his house if the man, whom he accused of having a thief as a son, did not leave the area.

[2] The party has been accused of 'causing a reign of terror', making use of kangaroo courts, torturing suspected criminals, and banishing residents it accused of being witches or Satanists.

[5] In December 2020, the party lost three of its 14 seats in the Bushbuckridge Local Municipality after it expelled three of its ward councillors, and did not contest the resulting by-elections.