It had relations with Ghana as a Pan-Africanist Movement; it sent its members for political training to the Kwame Nkrumah Ideological Institute.

Golden Highlanders were sent by the British Army in the early sixties due to pressure of the party’s protest actions in demanding political reforms for an independent state and class struggle for a minimum wage.

The party won three seats out of twenty-four in the state elections and was the first opposition to a Parliament dominated by the Imbokodvo National Movement.

After serving a long period in Tanzania the ruling class negotiated the return of the president, Dr. Ambrose Zwane.

At the end of November 1998, the party had its congress in which Mr. Obed Mfanyana Dlamini, a former Prime Minister won the presidency.