Volksraad

The supreme legislative power was intrusted to a single elective chamber, termed the Volksraad, the fundamental law was declared to be the Dutch, a court of landrost and heemraden was created, and the chief executive authority was given to Retief, with the title of Commandant-General.

The Great Boer Trek 1900

The Volksraad is the legislative body of the State, and consists of forty-two members.

Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal Henry Rider Haggard 1890

By it the government was vested in a President, head of the executive, and elected for five years, an Executive Council of five members (three elected and two _ex officio_), and a Legislature called the Volksraad, elected by the citizens on a very extended suffrage, and declared to be the supreme power in the State.

Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

But as the citizens dispersed themselves over the country, this became impossible, so authority, such slight authority as they could be induced to grant, was in each vested in a small elective assembly called the Volksraad or Council of the People.

Impressions of South Africa James Bryce Bryce 1880

He promised to give me time to call the Volksraad together, and to _abandon his design_ if the Volksraad would adopt these measures, and the country be willing to submit to them, and to carry them out. "

Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal Henry Rider Haggard 1890

Instead of lessening agitation, the Volksraad actually stiffened nationalist sentiments because any effort to achieve genuine progress through it was frustrated.

Archive 2004-11-01 2004

Regardless of the Volksraad, the colonial Government remained oppressive.

Archive 2004-11-01 2004

Why did the British ruling class, having won the war against the Volksraad, thus regress?

Editorial 2001

The entire administrative system was overhauled, and in 1929 it was decreed that in the future the Volksraad should have 30 “East Indians” (out of the total 60).

2. Indonesia (Netherlands East Indies) 2001

The National Indonesian Party emerged in this period; in 1937 the Volksraad unanimously petitioned the Dutch government to grant dominion status within ten years.

2. Indonesia (Netherlands East Indies) 2001