Botha appoints Hendrikse and Rajbansi into his Cabinet

The leader of the Labour Party, the Reverend H. J. Allan Hendrickse and Amichand Rajbansi of the National People's Party (NPP) are appointed to the Cabinet as Chairmen of the Ministers' Councils, but neither is given a ministerial portfolio. Both these leaders had accepted the Tricameral parliament introduced by P W Botha as a part of his constitutional reforms. Hendrikse and Rajbansi were representative of Coloured and Indian people in the House of Representative and House of Delegates, respectively. Click Here to read an article from a US government website about these limited reforms