Roy Ainslie

Arthur Roy Ainslie is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2014 and before that in the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature from 1994 to 1999.

Roy Ainslie
Member of the National Assembly
In office
June 1999 – 6 May 2014
ConstituencyKwaZulu-Natal
Personal details
CitizenshipSouth Africa
Political party

Ainslie has a bachelor's degree from the University of Cape Town.[1] During apartheid, he was active in liberal white political organisations, first as a leader of the National Union of South African Students (Nusas) in the 1970s[2][3] and then as a member of the Democratic Party.[4][5] In South Africa's first post-apartheid elections in 1994, he was elected to the new KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature.[1] In the next general election in 1999, he was elected to an ANC seat in the National Assembly, representing the KwaZulu-Natal constituency.[6] He served three terms in the assembly, gaining re-election in 2004[7] and 2009.[1] From 2010 he was the ANC's whip in the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.[8]

References
  1. "Arthur Roy Ainslie". People's Assembly. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  2. Hawthorne, Peter (4 March 1973). "South Africa". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  3. Pressly, Donwald (22 March 2022). "The Cape Town Press Club mourns the passing of Alderman Clive Keegan". Cape Town Press Club. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  4. "South Africa's New Era; Natal Violence Tied to Mandela's Release". The New York Times. 14 February 1990. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  5. "Discrepancies over IFP death list". The Mail & Guardian. 24 November 1995. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  6. "Members of the National Assembly". Parliament of South Africa. 27 September 1999. Archived from the original on 28 November 1999. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  7. "General Notice: Notice 717 of 2004 - Electoral Commission – List of Names of Representatives in the National Assembly and the Nine Provincial Legislatures in Respect of the Elections Held on 14 April 2004" (PDF). Government Gazette of South Africa. Vol. 466, no. 2677. Pretoria, South Africa: Government of South Africa. 20 April 2004. pp. 4–95. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  8. "New ANC appointments in Parliament". ANC Parliamentary Caucus. 18 January 2010. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
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