Coloured Persons Representative Council

Coloured Persons Representative Council

Verteenwoordigende Kleurlingraad
History
Established1969
Disbanded1980
Preceded byUnion Council for Coloured Affairs
Succeeded byHouse of Representatives
Leadership
Chairman of the Executive
Tom Swartz (1969–1975)
Sonny Leon (1975)
Alathea Jansen (1975–1980)
Seats60 (40 elected, 20 nominated)
Elections
First-past-the-post with single-member divisions
Last election
19 March 1975
Meeting place
Proteaville, Bellville, Cape Town

The Coloured Persons Representative Council of the Republic of South Africa[1] was a partially elected council with limited legislative powers, intended to represent coloured South Africans during the apartheid era. It was first elected in 1969, re-elected in 1975, and permanently dissolved in 1980.[2] In 1984 the House of Representatives was created to represent coloured voters in the Tricameral Parliament.

  1. ^ The name is sometimes written as "Coloured Persons' Representative Council"; however the text of the Coloured Persons Representative Council Act, 1964, omits the apostrophe.
  2. ^ Saks, David Yoram (1991). The failure of the Coloured Persons' Representative Council and its constitutional repercussions, 1956–1985 (M.A.). Rhodes University. Archived from the original on 4 December 2008. Retrieved 25 April 2012.