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Brian Bell (politician)
Brian Gordon Bell (born 14 June 1936) is a retired South African politician who represented the Democratic Party (DP), later the Democratic Alliance (DA), in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2004. With Manny da Camara, he was elected in the 1999 general election as one of the DP's two representatives in the Mpumalanga Mpumalanga () is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. The name means "East", or literally "The Place Where the Sun Rises" in the Nguni languages. Mpumalanga lies in eastern South Africa, bordering Eswatini and Mozambique. It shares bor ... caucus. Bell served stints as the DP's spokesperson in the Standing Committee on Public Accounts and as the DP's spokesperson on minerals and energy. Ahead of the 2004 general election, he was omitted from the DA's party list, and he left Parliament after the election. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bell, Brian Living people Democratic Party (South Africa) politicians Democratic Alliance (South Africa) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Alliance (South Africa)
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is a Liberalism, liberal South African list of political parties in South Africa, political party. The party has been the second-largest in South Africa since its foundation in 2000. The party is broadly centrism, centrist, and has also been associated with centre-rightA critique of the Democratic Alliance , Frans Cronje, South African Institute of Race Relations, november 2008 "...the DA whose centre-right position in South African politics could now face a credible challenge for the first time" policies. It is a member of Liberal International and the Africa Liberal Network. The DA traces its roots to the founding of the anti-apartheid Progressive Party (South Africa), Progressive Party in 1959, with many mergers and name changes between ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 South African General Election
General elections were held in South Africa on 2 June 1999. The result was a landslide victory for the governing African National Congress (ANC), which gained fourteen seats. Incumbent president Nelson Mandela declined to seek re-election as president on grounds of his age. This election was notable for the sharp decline of the New National Party, previously the National Party (NP), which without former State President F. W. de Klerk lost more than half of their former support base. The liberal Democratic Party became the largest opposition party, after being the fifth largest party in the previous elections in 1994. The number of parties represented in the National Assembly increased to thirteen, with the United Democratic Movement, jointly headed by former National Party member Roelf Meyer, and former ANC member Bantu Holomisa, being the most successful of the newcomers with fourteen seats. National Assembly results Provincial legislature results Eastern Cape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Alliance (South Africa) Politicians
Democratic Alliance may refer to: Current political parties *Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong * Democratic Alliance (Portugal, 2024) *Democratic Alliance (South Africa) *Democratic Alliance (Ukraine) * Democratic Alliance (Venezuela) *Democratic Alliance List, Palestine * Democratic Alliance Party (Haiti) *DEMOS (Montenegro) *National Democratic Alliance, India * Democratic Alliance of Nagaland, India * Singapore Democratic Alliance Defunct political parties or coalitions * British Columbia Democratic Alliance * Democratic Alliance (Hong Kong) * Democratic Alliance (Bulgaria) *Democratic Alliance of Chile * Democratic Alliance (Chile, 1983) * Democratic Alliance for Egypt *Democratic Alliance (Greece) * Democratic Alliance (Guinea-Bissau) * Democratic Alliance (Italy) * Democratic Alliance (Palestine) * Democratic Alliance (Philippines) * Democratic Alliance (Portugal, 1979) *Democratic Alliance (Quebec) * Democratic Alliance (Sweden) *Democratic Rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (South Africa) Politicians
Democratic Party and similar terms may refer to: Active parties Africa *Botswana Democratic Party * Democratic Party of Equatorial Guinea * Gabonese Democratic Party * Democratic Party of Guinea – African Democratic Rally * Democratic Party of Ivory Coast – African Democratic Rally *Democratic Party (Kenya) * Basotho Batho Democratic Party, Lesotho * Democratic Party (Libya) * Malawi Democratic Party * Democratic Party of Namibia * Senegalese Democratic Party * Seychelles Democratic Party *Democratic Alliance (South Africa) * Swazi Democratic Party * Democratic Party (Tanzania) * Democratic Party (Tunisia) *Democratic Party (Uganda) Americas *Democratic Progressive Party (Argentina) *National Democratic Party (Argentina) * Democratic Party (Mendoza), Argentina * Democratic Party of the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina *Anguilla Democratic Party *Bonaire Democratic Party *Brazilian Democratic Movement Party *New Democratic Party, Canada *Party for Democracy (Chile) *Democratic Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 South African General Election
General elections were held in South Africa on Wednesday, 14 April 2004. The African National Congress (ANC) of President Thabo Mbeki, which came to power after the end of the apartheid system in 1994, was re-elected with an increased majority. These were the third elections held since the end of the apartheid era. The South African National Assembly consists of 400 members, elected by proportional representation. 200 members are elected from national party lists, the other 200 are elected from party lists in each of the nine provinces. The President of South Africa is chosen by the National Assembly after each election. The ANC, which had been in power since 1994, obtained 69.7% of votes cast on the national ballot, theoretically allowing them to change the constitution. Some 20.6-million people were registered for the 2004 general elections, which was about 2 million more than in 1999. About 76% of registered voters took part in the election, with the ANC receiving 69.7% of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of Minerals And Energy
The minister of mineral and petroleum resources is a minister in the cabinet of the South African national government. The minister has political responsibility for the Department of Mineral and Petroleum Resources. The office in its current form was re-established in June 2024; it formerly existed between May 2009 and May 2019, initially as the minister of mining and then as the minister for mineral resources. During other periods, the mineral resources portfolio has been enlarged by the inclusion of energy: there was a minister of minerals and energy before May 2009 and, more recently, a minister of mineral resources and energy between May 2019 and June 2024. The current minister of mineral resources is Gwede Mantashe, who was also the last minister of mineral resources and energy; he has overseen the mineral resources portfolio since February 2018. Post-apartheid history In the Government of National Unity (GNU) between 1994 and 1999, the mineral resources portfolio was p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standing Committee On Public Accounts
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA; Afrikaans: ''Staande Komitee oor Openbare Rekeninge'') is a standing committee of the National Assembly of South Africa, the lower house of the Parliament of South Africa. It oversees the financial statements of all government departments and state institutions, any audit reports issued on those statements, reports compiled by the Auditor-General on government departments and state institutions, as well as any other financial statements or reports referred to by the committee. Independence of the Chair From 1994 until 2024 the practice has been that Parliament elects an opposition party member as chairperson. African People's Convention’s Themba Godi, who was the SCOPA chair for 15 years, in 2022 said about the party affiliation of the chair: In July 2024 the South African Parliament elected Songezi Zibi from Rise Mzansi, a member of the Government of National Unity (NGU) as chairperson. ActionSA, an opposition party that has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manny Da Camara
Manuel Lima da Camara (born 15 May 1971) is a South African politician who represented the Democratic Party (DP) in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2004. He was elected in the 1999 general election and served as one of two DP representatives in the Mpumalanga constituency, as well as the Democratic Alliance's spokesman on youth affairs. He stood for re-election in the 2004 general election but was ranked seventh on the provincial list for Mpumalanga and did not secure re-election. Da Camara speaks Portuguese. In 2022, at a civil society event in Johannesburg Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu language, Zulu and Xhosa language, Xhosa: eGoli ) (colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, Jo'burg or "The City of Gold") is the most populous city in South Africa. With 5,538,596 people in the City of Johannesburg alon ..., he spoke in favour of electoral reform in South Africa. References {{DEFAULTSORT:da Camara, Manny Living people Democratic Party (South Africa) politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (South Africa)
The Democratic Party (DP; ) was a South African political party that was the forerunner of the Democratic Alliance. Although the Democratic Party name dates from 1989, the party existed under other labels throughout the apartheid years, when it was the Parliamentary opposition to the ruling National Party's policies. Background The Progressive Federal Party had formed the main parliamentary opposition to the Apartheid regime in the whites-only House of Assembly since 1977. But the party was ousted as the official opposition in the 1987 election and pushed into third place behind the far-right Conservative Party, which opposed even the limited reforms the NP had recently implemented. This led to great disillusionment amongst South Africa's white liberal community, and some questioned the merit of continuing to serve in the apartheid parliament. By 1989, they had regrouped, however, and aimed to strengthen the white parliamentary resistance to apartheid; the Progressive Federa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Government Of South Africa
The Government of South Africa, or South African Government, is the national government of the Republic of South Africa, a parliamentary republic with a three-tier system of government and an independent judiciary, operating in a parliamentary system. Legislative authority is held by the Parliament of South Africa. Executive authority is vested in the President of South Africa who is head of state and head of government, and their Cabinet. The President is elected by the Parliament to serve a fixed term. South Africa's government differs from those of other Commonwealth nations. The national, provincial and local levels of government all have legislative and executive authority in their own spheres, and are defined in the South African Constitution as "distinctive, interdependent and interrelated". Operating at both national and provincial levels ("domes") are advisory bodies drawn from South Africa's traditional leaders. It is a stated intention in the Constitution that the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
