Jac Rabie
Jacobus Albert Rabie (August 1938 – 29 April 2008) was a South African politician who was Minister for Population Development under President F. W. de Klerk from 1993 to 1994. He served in the apartheid-era House of Representatives throughout its lifespan from 1984 to 1994, representing the Reiger Park constituency, and subsequently served one term in the post-apartheid National Assembly from 1994 to 1999.
Jac Rabie | |
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| Member of the National Assembly | |
| In office May 1994 – June 1999 | |
| Minister for Population Development | |
| In office February 1993 – April 1994 | |
| President | F. W. de Klerk |
| Succeeded by | Abe Williams |
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| Assembly Member for Reiger Park | |
| In office August 1984 – April 1994 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Jacobus Albert Rabie August 1938 Middelburg, Transvaal Union of South Africa |
| Died | 29 April 2008 (aged 79) Boksburg, Gauteng South Africa |
| Political party | National Party (since 1991) |
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Rabie entered politics as Reiger Park's representative on the Coloured Representative Council, where he was a member throughout the council's existence from 1969 to 1980. He joined the council as a member of the Federal Coloured People's Party but, after being expelled from the party, he sat as an independent before joining the Labour Party in 1978. He became the Labour Party's chairman in the Transvaal in 1982 and was elected to the House of Representatives under its banner when the Tricameral Parliament was established in 1984. During his first term in the house, he split from the Labour Party to establish the United Democratic Party. He joined the governing National Party (NP) in 1991 and represented it in the National Assembly after the end of apartheid in 1994.