Infobox Parliament
| background_color = Green
| name = Parliament of the Republic of South Africa
| legislature = 27th Parliament
| coa_pic = SA_Parliament_coat_of_arms.svg
| coa_res = 200px
| session_room = Houses of Parliament (Cape Town).jpg
| house_type = Bicameral
| houses = National AssemblyNational Council of Provinces
| leader1_type = Speaker of the National Assembly
| leader1 = Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula
| party1 = ANC
| election1 = 19 August 2021
| leader2_type = Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces
| leader2 = Amos Masondo
| party2 = ANC
| election2 = 23 May 2019
| leader3_type = Leader of the Opposition
| leader3 =
| party3 = DA
| election3 = 26 May 2014
| members = 49090 National Council400 National Assembly
| house1 = National Council of Provinces
| house2 = National Assembly
| structure1 = South African National Council of Provinces 2019.svg
| structure1_res = 270px
| structure2 = Diagram of the National Assembly of South Africa.svg
| structure2_res = 270px
| political_groups1 =
ANC (29 + 25)
DA (13 + 7)
EFF (9 + 2)
Others (3 + 2)
| political_groups2 =
Government (230)
ANC (230)
Official Opposition (84)
DA (84)
nowrap| Other parties (86)
EFF (44)
IFP (14)
FF+ (10)
ACDP (4)
UDM (2)
ATM (2)
Good (2)
NFP (2)
AIC (2)
COPE (2)
PAC (1)
Al Jama-ah (1)
| meeting_place = Houses of Parliament, Cape Town Western Cape, South Africa
| website =
| logo_pic = Parliament of South Africa logo.svg|logo_res=250px
The Parliament of the Republic of South Africa' is South Africa's legislature; under the present Constitution of South Africa, the bicameral Parliament comprises a National Assembly and a National Council of Provinces. The current twenty-seventh Parliament was first convened on 22 May 2019.
From 1910 to 1994, members of Parliament were elected chiefly by the South African white minority. The first elections with universal suffrage were held in 1994.
Both chambers held their meetings in the Houses of Parliament, Cape Town that were built 1875–1884.
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South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa, is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini. It also completely enclaves the country Lesotho. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World, and the second-most populous country located entirely south of the equator, after Tanzania.
The National Party (Nasionale Party, NP), also known as the Nationalist Party, was a political party in South Africa from 1914 to 1997, which was responsible for the implementation of apartheid rule. The party was an Afrikaner ethnic nationalist party, which initially promoted the interests of Afrikaners but later became a stalwart promoter and enactor of white supremacy, for which it is best known. It first became the governing party of the country in 1924.
Apartheid (əˈpɑːrt(h)aɪt, especially South African English: əˈpɑːrt(h)eɪt, aˈpartɦɛit; , aparthood) was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was characterised by an authoritarian political culture based on baasskap ( 'boss-hood' or 'boss-ship'), which ensured that South Africa was dominated politically, socially, and economically through minoritarianism by the nation's dominant minority white population.