This article lists the members of the

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of South Africa during the

22nd South African Parliament The 22nd Parliament of the Republic of South Africa was elected in the elections of 27 April 1994; it was the first parliament in South Africa's history to be elected by voters of all races. Nelson Mandela's African National Congress formed a ...

, which sat between 1994 and 1999. Members were elected during the elections of 27 April 1994, South Africa's first under universal suffrage, and served until the elections of 2 June 1999. The

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(ANC) won a comfortable majority of 252 seats in the 400-seat legislature. The former governing party, the National Party (NP), became the official opposition.

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was elected unanimously as

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during the assembly's first sitting on 9 May 1994, which also saw members sworn in to their seats and

Frene Ginwala Frene Noshir Ginwala (25 April 1932 – 12 January 2023) was a South African journalist and politician who was the first Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa from 1994 to 2004.

elected as the inaugural Speaker of the National Assembly. As required by the

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, the ANC formed a Government of National Unity under President Mandela. On 24 May 1994, the first session of the Constitutional Assembly was held, comprising the joint membership of the National Assembly and

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. The Constitutional Assembly, chaired by Cyril Ramaphosa of the National Assembly, adopted South Africa's post-apartheid Constitution on 8 May 1996.

Composition

The table below shows the number of seats won by each party in the elections of 27 April 1994.

Members

The following lists the Members of the National Assembly as of 3 June 1998.

Former Members

The following lists former Members of the National Assembly who were elected in the April 1994 election, but who left their seats before 3 June 1998.

References

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Parliament opens in 1997 under the new Constitution
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