Roy Ainslie

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Roy Ainslie
Member of the National Assembly
In office
June 1999 –6 May 2014

Arthur Roy Ainslie is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2014 and before that in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature from 1994 to 1999.

Ainslie has a bachelor's degree from the University of Cape Town. [1] During apartheid, he was active in liberal white political organisations, first as a leader of the National Union of South African Students (Nusas) in the 1970s [2] [3] and then as a member of the Democratic Party. [4] [5] In South Africa's first post-apartheid elections in 1994, he was elected to the new KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature. [1] In the next general election in 1999, he was elected to an ANC seat in the National Assembly, representing the KwaZulu-Natal constituency. [6] He served three terms in the assembly, gaining re-election in 2004 [7] and 2009. [1] From 2010 he was the ANC's whip in the Standing Committee on Public Accounts. [8]

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  2. ↑ Hawthorne, Peter (4 March 1973). "South Africa". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  3. ↑ Pressly, Donwald (22 March 2022). "The Cape Town Press Club mourns the passing of Alderman Clive Keegan". Cape Town Press Club. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  4. ↑ "South Africa's New Era; Natal Violence Tied to Mandela's Release". The New York Times. 14 February 1990. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  5. ↑ "Discrepancies over IFP death list". The Mail & Guardian. 24 November 1995. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  6. ↑ "Members of the National Assembly". Parliament of South Africa. 27 September 1999. Archived from the original on 28 November 1999. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  7. ↑ "General Notice: Notice 717 of 2004 - Electoral Commission – List of Names of Representatives in the National Assembly and the Nine Provincial Legislatures in Respect of the Elections Held on 14 April 2004" (PDF). Government Gazette of South Africa . Vol. 466, no. 2677. Pretoria, South Africa: Government of South Africa. 20 April 2004. pp. 4–95. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
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