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{{Short description|Quasi-legislative apartheid body with limited powers}}

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Quasi-legislative apartheid body with limited powers

The Coloured Persons Representative Council of the Republic of South Africa[1] was a partially elected council with limited legislative powers, intended to represent coloured South Africans during the apartheid era. It was first elected in 1969, re-elected in 1975, and permanently dissolved in 1980.[2] In 1984 the House of Representatives was created to represent coloured voters in the Tricameral Parliament.

30 September 1969:

19 March 1975:

In the course of its existence the CPRC only passed a small number of laws:

  • Law No. 1 of 1971: the Coloured Persons Rehabilitation Centres Law, 1971
  • Law No. 1 of 1972: the Coloured Persons Rehabilitation Centres Amendment Law, 1972
  • Law No. 1 of 1973: the Coloured Farmers Assistance Law, 1973
  • Law No. 1 of 1974: the Coloured Persons Social Pensions Law, 1974
  • Law No. 1 of 1977: the Coloured Persons Rehabilitation Centres Amendment Law, 1977
  • Law No. 1 of 1979: the Rural Coloured Areas Law, 1979

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