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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:
Total4,833
Searchable1,961
Targets1,587
Entity types:
People1,587
Positions374
Countries:
South Africa1,961
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 Core Data
Information:pa.org.za
Source data:pa.org.za · JSON
Tags:list.pep
Coverage:added · frequency: daily
Last processed:2025-07-01 20:44:03 · v. 20250701204403-gfv
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 entities3.03 MB
names.txtTarget names text file64.37 KB
pombola.jsonSource data66.6 MB
senzing.jsonSenzing entity format1.53 MB
targets.nested.jsonTargets as nested JSON3.89 MB
targets.simple.csvTargets as simplified CSV391.86 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
Juliet Adileen BassonPersonSouth Africa
Jeffrey Bhekumndeni MtoloPersonSouth Africa
Ernest HendricksPersonSouth Africa
Njabulo Maxwell MtoloPersonSouth Africa
Siphetho Witness MkhizePersonSouth Africa
Noma ButheleziPersonSouth Africa
Philasande MkhizePersonSouth Africa
Ntandoyenkosi Nkosentsha SheziPersonSouth Africa
Gift MotaungPersonSouth Africa
Zibuse Khayelihle Abednego CelePersonSouth Africa
Sisipho Palomino JamaPersonSouth Africa
Imraan Ismail-MoosaPersonSouth Africa
Life Ramodise MoniniPersonSouth Africa
Mamosoeu Wendy MakgatePersonSouth Africa
Johannes Raseriti TauPersonSouth Africa