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- ↑ "SA's newly sworn-in 6th Parliament". SAnews. 2019-06-06. Retrieved 2023-01-01.
- ↑ @ParliamentofRSA (June 9, 2019). "Mr Mohammed Dangor, the only remaining designated NCOP Member not sworn in during the first sitting of the Council on 23 May, sworn in today at the Constitutional Hill by Judge President Dustan Mlambo of the Gauteng Division of the High Court #6thParliament" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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