Botha appoints Hendrikse and Rajbansi into his Cabinet

Date: 15 Sep 1984
Updated: 30 Sep 2019

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

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01South African History Online, Pieter Willem Botha, [online], Available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 12 September 2013]
02Independent Online(IOL) News (2006), 'The life and times of PW Botha', in the iol,1 November, [online], Available at www.iol.co.za [Accessed 12 September 2013]
03Kalley Jacqueline A.,Schoeman Elna and Andor L.E. (1999), Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to Mid-1997, (Greenwood Press), p.490

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Botha appoints Hendrikse and Rajbansi into his Cabinet. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012564

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South African History Online. "Botha appoints Hendrikse and Rajbansi into his Cabinet." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0012564.