South Africa National and Provincial Legislators

Current members of the National Assembly, National Council of Provinces, and provincial legislatures and executives in South Africa.

This dataset includes information about current and recent members of South Africa legislators using data from People's Assembly.

The national executive, the national legislatures (National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces), as well as the nine provincial legislatures and executives are covered.

This data source is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC-BY-SA).

Data overview 

Entities:
Total4,446
Searchable1,799
Targets1,564
Entity types:
People1,564
Positions235
Countries:
South Africa1,799
Publisher:Parliamentary Monitoring Group (PMG) · South Africa non-official source

PMG is a parliamentary monitoring organization that provides comprehensive information on the work of the South African parliament. Detailed data about legislators, the progress of bills through parliament, committee meetings and attendance is made available to enable public oversight of the legislative process. Some of this information is also available for provincial legislatures. PMG also maintains the People's Assembly website enabling easier access to information about public representatives and interaction with them.

Collections:in OpenSanctions Default · Politically Exposed Persons Datasets
Information:pa.org.za
Source data:pa.org.za · JSON
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: daily
Last processed:
2026-08-15 20:44:01 · v. 20260815204401-krd
Last change:

Bulk download 

Downloads contain the full set of entities contained in this dataset. You can fetch a simplified tabular form, or detailed, structured data in JSON format. Updated files will be provided once a day at the same location.

File nameExport typeSize
entities.ftm.jsonFollowTheMoney entities2.83 MB
names.txtTarget names text file54.21 KB
pombola.jsonSource data68.63 MB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format1.33 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON3.7 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV367.27 KB

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Using the API 

You can query the data in this dataset via these API endpoints:

For entity matching, use the /match endpoint:
For full-text search, use the /search endpoint:
Use the Reconciliation API in OpenRefine:

Recent additions 

The following targeted entities have been added to this data source most recently:

AddedNameTypeCountries
Masego Dorcas KodisangPersonSouth Africa
Manuel de FreitasPersonSouth Africa · Portugal
Bongi Maria NtuliPersonSouth Africa
Pumlani KubukeliPersonSouth Africa
Brumelda ZumaPersonSouth Africa
Makhosazana RadebePersonSouth Africa
Dipuo NtuliPersonSouth Africa
John MichelsPersonSouth Africa
Cedrick KhanyiPersonSouth Africa
Mamiki MkhabelaPersonSouth Africa
Hermanus Frans MarxPersonSouth Africa
Lungile MhlongoPersonSouth Africa
Muzi KhozaPersonSouth Africa
Alco NgobesePersonSouth Africa
Leah MabuzaPersonSouth Africa
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