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The Pan-African Parliament (PAP), also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union. [1] It held its inaugural session in March 2004. The Parliament exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, having lasting for the first five years.
Below is a list of the MPs that make up the African Union's Pan-African Parliament, the respective countries they are elected from, and their political party. [1] The members served during the 2004 to 2009 period.
A seat in the National Assembly becomes vacant if the member dies, resigns, ceases to be eligible, ceases to be a member of the party that nominated them, or is elected to the office of President of South Africa.
The basic ideas of this system such as a three branch government and strong Parliament remain in force today. On 15 November 1926, the Balfour Declaration was adopted at the 1926 Imperial Conference. This document made the dominions of the British Empire including South Africa equal to each other and the United Kingdom. In practice, this made ...
6th South African Parliament (1929–1933) – majority party: National Party; 7th South African Parliament (1933–1938) – majority party: United Party; 8th South African Parliament (1938–1943) – majority party: United Party; 9th South African Parliament (1943–1948) – majority party: United Party; 10th South African Parliament (1948 ...
The House of Assembly. The House of Assembly (known in Afrikaans as the Volksraad, or "People's Council") was the lower house of the Parliament of South Africa from 1910 to 1981, the sole parliamentary chamber between 1981 and 1984, and latterly the white representative house of the Tricameral Parliament from 1984 to 1994, when it was replaced by the current National Assembly.
Rise Mzansi (RISE) is a South African political party founded in April 2023. It is led by Songezo Zibi , a former newspaper editor and co-founder of the Rivonia Circle think tank . The party characterises their ideology as social democratic but has been defined elsewhere as neoliberal .
The African Parliamentary Union, formerly the Union of African Parliaments, is a continental interparliamentary organization first established in Abidjan on 13 February 1976. The Union aims to bring together the parliamentary institutions of all the nations of Africa , to encourage contacts among African and world parliamentarians , and to ...