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unusual facts about South African Parliament



Jonny Oates

In 1999, Oates took a position at the Westminster Foundation for Democracy where he was assigned to a role as a political and media adviser to the Inkatha Freedom Party in the South African Parliament, advising Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Reverend Musa Zondi.


see also

24th South African Parliament

The 24th South African Parliament was the third Parliament of South Africa to convene since the introduction of multiracial government in South Africa in 1994.

25th South African Parliament

The 25th South African Parliament is the fourth Parliament of South Africa to convene since the introduction of multiracial government in South Africa in 1994.

D'Oliveira affair

In 1960 the UK Prime Minister Harold Macmillan criticised apartheid in his "Wind of Change" speech to the South African parliament.

Feinstein

Andrew Feinstein an ANC Member of Parliament and former African National Congress leader of South African Parliament's public accounts watchdog, Scopa

Helene Jarmer

Helene Jarmer (born on August 8, 1971), as a member of the National Council of Austria, is the third culturally Deaf person in world history to be elected to a national parliament (after Wilma Newhoudt-Druchen of South Africa who was elected to the South African Parliament in 1999, and Dimitra Arapoglou who was elected to the Greek Parliament in 2007).

Ossie Newton-Thompson

A lawyer, he ran successfully in 1961 for a seat in South African parliament, as the United Party candidate for Pinelands.