The Independent Democrats (ID) was a South African political party, formed by former Pan Africanist Congress member Patricia de Lille in 2003 via floor crossing legislation.

[1] The party's platform was premised on opposition to corruption, with a mixture of liberal principles and strategies for improving equity.

Ahead of the national elections in 2009, the ID launched a manifesto promising that, if elected to power, they would increase the staffing of the South African Police Service to 200,000, enlist 5,000 caseworkers to operate in crime-stricken communities, make South Africa a leader in renewable energy and finance a minimum social grant by taxing luxury goods, tobacco and alcohol.

In addition they vowed that an "ID government would fire a minister whose department received a qualified audit two years in a row.

Due to this, the ID did not contest the 2011 local elections as a separate entity, instead fielding its candidates on the DA's ballots.