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President Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP

Date
16 Sep 2004
Updated
30 Sep 2019
President Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP

The South African state president, Thabo Mbeki, opened the second sitting of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) for the first time at its new permanent seat, the Gallagher Estate conference centre in Midrand, Gauteng. The parliament was established in March 2004, by Article 17 of The Constitutive Act of the African Union, as one of the nine Organs provided for in the Treaty Establishing the African Economic Community signed in Abuja, Nigeria, in 1991. According to the programme, new members of the Parliament were to be sworn in before the start of the official opening scheduled for around 11am with the arrival of Mbeki and his visiting Indian counterpart Abdul Kalam. R7, 3 million was set a side for an opening bash.

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  1. 01sahistory,'South African state president',[online],Available at www.sahistory.org.za [Accessed: 12 September 2013]
  2. 02pan-african-parliament,' Pan African Parliament ',[online],Available at www.Pan African Parliament.org [Accessed: 12 September 2013]  

Last updated · 30 Sep 2019

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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). President Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013594

South African History Online (2011) 'President Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP', South African History Online, 16 March. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013594 (Accessed: 8 August 2026).

South African History Online, President Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013594, (accessed 8 August 2026).

"President Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP." South African History Online, 16 Mar. 2011, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013594. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

South African History Online. "President Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP." South African History Online. March 16, 2011. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013594.

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