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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:
Total4,564
Searchable1,876
Targets1,520
Entity types:
People1,520
Positions356
Countries:
South Africa1,876
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 (PEPs)
Information:pa.org.za
Source data:pa.org.za · JSON
Coverage:added · update frequency: daily
Last processed:2024-10-13 20:44:07
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 entities2.66 MB
names.txtTarget names text file61.65 KB
pombola.jsonSource data65.12 MB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format1.48 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON3.46 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV380.92 KB

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Using the API

You can query the data in this dataset via the application programming interface (API) endpoints below. Please read the introduction for documentation and terms of service.

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

Recent additions

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

AddedNameTypeCountries
S'bongiseni Gerald VilakaziPersonSouth Africa
Theolonuis Nat Nathan OliphantPersonSouth Africa
Evert Phillipus Du PlessisPersonSouth Africa
Jack Brian BloomPersonSouth Africa
Leon David Van WykPersonSouth Africa
Lebogang Ludwig MorePersonSouth Africa
Bheki NtuliPersonSouth Africa
Gavin George EdwardsPersonSouth Africa
Mokgethi Kabelo MogatosiPersonSouth Africa
Nomakhosazana MethPersonSouth Africa
Sharon Winona DavidsPersonSouth Africa
Nolitha NtobongwanaPersonSouth Africa
Leswafo Joshua MatlouPersonSouth Africa
Zwelakhe Elija MthethwaPersonSouth Africa
Joseph Hendrik Pieter BritzPersonSouth Africa