Coloured Persons Representative Council

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| name = Coloured Persons Representative Council

| native_name = Verteenwoordigende Kleurlingraad

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| established = 1969

| preceded_by = Union Council for Coloured Affairs

| succeeded_by = House of Representatives

| disbanded = 1980

| leader1_type = Chairman of the Executive

| leader1 = Tom Swartz (1969–1975)
Sonny Leon (1975)
Alathea Jansen (1975–1980)

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| members = 60 (40 elected, 20 nominated)

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| voting_system1 = First-past-the-post with single-member divisions

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| last_election1 = 19 March 1975

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| meeting_place = Proteaville, Bellville, Cape Town

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The Coloured Persons Representative Council of the Republic of South AfricaThe name is sometimes written as "Coloured Persons' Representative Council"; however the text of the Coloured Persons Representative Council Act, 1964, omits the apostrophe. was a partially elected council with limited legislative powers, intended to represent coloured South Africans during the apartheid era. It was first elected in 1969, re-elected in 1975, and permanently dissolved in 1980.{{Cite thesis |type=M.A. |title=The failure of the Coloured Persons' Representative Council and its constitutional repercussions, 1956–1985 |url=http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1024/ |last=Saks |first=David Yoram |year=1991 |publisher=Rhodes University |accessdate=25 April 2012 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081204000728/http://eprints.ru.ac.za/1024/ |archivedate=4 December 2008 |url-status=dead }} In 1984 the House of Representatives was created to represent coloured voters in the Tricameral Parliament.