Roy Ainslie

{{Short description|South African politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| party = {{plainlist|

• African National Congress (since 1994)
• Democratic Party (until 1994)}}

| office1 = Member of the National Assembly

| termstart1 = June 1999

| termend1 = 6 May 2014

| citizenship = South Africa

| constituency1 = KwaZulu-Natal

}}

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.

Ainslie has a bachelor's degree from the University of Cape Town.{{Cite web |title=Arthur Roy Ainslie |url=http://www.pa.org.za/person/arthur-roy-ainslie/ |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=People's Assembly |language=en}} 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{{Cite news |last=Hawthorne |first=Peter |date=1973-03-04 |title=South Africa |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/03/04/archives/vorster-cuts-out-a-cancer-south-africa.html |access-date=2023-04-10 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |last=Pressly |first=Donwald |date=2022-03-22 |title=The Cape Town Press Club mourns the passing of Alderman Clive Keegan |url=https://www.capetownpc.org.za/2022/03/the-cape-town-press-club-mourns-the-passing-of-alderman-clive-keegan/ |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=Cape Town Press Club |language=en-US}} and then as a member of the Democratic Party.{{Cite news |date=1990-02-14 |title=South Africa's New Era; Natal Violence Tied to Mandela's Release |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/14/world/south-africa-s-new-era-natal-violence-tied-to-mandela-s-release.html |access-date=2023-04-10 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |date=1995-11-24 |title=Discrepancies over IFP death list |url=https://mg.co.za/article/1995-11-24-discrepancies-over-ifp-death-list/ |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=The Mail & Guardian |language=en-ZA}} In South Africa's first post-apartheid elections in 1994, he was elected to the new KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature. In the next general election in 1999, he was elected to an ANC seat in the National Assembly, representing the KwaZulu-Natal constituency.{{Cite web |date=1999-09-27 |title=Members of the National Assembly |url=http://www.parliament.gov.za/na/mps.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19991128094412/http://www.parliament.gov.za:80/na/mps.html |archive-date=28 November 1999 |access-date=2023-04-02 |website=Parliament of South Africa}} He served three terms in the assembly, gaining re-election in 2004{{cite magazine |date=20 April 2004 |title=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 |url=https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201409/262770.pdf |magazine=Government Gazette of South Africa |location=Pretoria, South Africa |publisher=Government of South Africa |volume=466 |issue=2677 |pages=4–95 |access-date=26 March 2021}} and 2009. From 2010 he was the ANC's whip in the Standing Committee on Public Accounts.{{Cite web |date=18 January 2010 |title=New ANC appointments in Parliament |url=https://ancparliament.org.za/content/new-anc-appointments-parliament |access-date=2023-04-10 |website=ANC Parliamentary Caucus}}