The Collaborative International Dictionary
Volksraad \Volks"raad`\, n. [D.] A legislative assembly or parliament of any one of several countries colonized by the Dutch, esp. that of the South African Republic, or the Transvaal, and that of the Orange Free State.
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The Volksraad (English: "People's Council") was the parliament of the former South African Republic (ZAR), which existed from 1857 to 1902 in part of what is now South Africa. The body ceased to exist after the British victory in the Second Anglo-Boer War. The Volksraad sat in session in Ou Raadsaal in Church Square, Pretoria. It was a unicameral body with 24 members.
The Volksraad was divided into two chambers in 1890 in order to keep Boer control over state matters while still giving foreigners—many of whom were temporarily employed in the mining industry—a say in local affairs. This was done in order to fend off British complaints. This bicameral legislature consisted of a "Second Volksraad", with suffrage for all white males above 16 years, as well as a "First Volksraad" (which was the highest authority in charge of state policy), with suffrage limited to persons above 30 with permanent property and a longer history of settlement, or burghers above 16.
Volksraad was also the Afrikaans name for the South African House of Assembly from 1910 to 1994.
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Volksraad (5 February 1988 - 28 December 2011) is a thoroughbred horse and a New Zealand sire of champion racehorses. He has dominated the New Zealand sires lists, with six consecutive titles from 2001 to 2007.
His progeny include six-time Group 1 winner Sir Slick, New Zealand Derby winner Military Move, Willy Smith, Torlesse, Dantelah, Clifton Prince, Fiscal Madness, Volkaire, Bahnhof Zoo, Dezigna, One Under, Vinaka, Thriller, Zola, Katana, Veloce Bella, Star Satire, Distill and Tusker.
Volksraad was euthanased after fracturing a shoulder in a paddock accident on 28 December 2011. He was 23 years old.
The Volksraad was a people's assembly in the 19th-century South African Republic. It may also refer to:
- Volksraad (Orange Free State), a similar assembly that existed in the Orange Free State until 1902
- Volksraad (Dutch East Indies), a consultative council for the Dutch East Indies established in 1918
- Volksraad (Netherlands New Guinea), a consultative council for the Netherlands New Guinea between 1949 and 1969
- Volksraad (horse), a New Zealand sire of racehorses
Volksraad was also the Afrikaans name for the House of Assembly of South Africa between 1910 and 1994.
A People's Council (Volksraad) for the Dutch East Indies was provided for by law in 1916, but its establishment was procrastinated until the actual installation of the Council in 1918. It was a hesitant and slow attempt at democratisation of the Dutch East Indies. The power of the Volksraad was limited as it only had advisory powers. Although part of the council was elected only a small proportion of the population had voting rights.
The Volksraad had sixty members: 30 members from various indigenous groups, 25 European, and 5 from Chinese, Arab and other Foreign Orientals. The Volksraad was reconstituted every four years. The members of the Council were partly chosen, partly appointed by the colonial administration.
Usage examples of "volksraad".
If the Transvaalers had waited they would have had their Volksraad and all that they wanted.
There was no Volksraad and no coffee, and the popular discontent grew rapidly.
But his situation was intolerable, and after successive attempts at peaceful agitation, and numerous humble petitions to the Volksraad, he began at last to realise that he would never obtain redress unless he could find some way of winning it for himself.
Uitlanders had approached the Volksraad in a petition signed by 14,800 persons.
Indian, a British subject and man of education far superior to that of the greater part of the Boers, while following a bridle path trespassed on the farm property of a member of the Volksraad, named Meyer.
Nor is there any more respect shown by the Volksraad for contracts, and, on one occasion, it solemnly accorded to the Government the right to annul clauses which had ceased to be satisfactory.
Dom case the Volksraad passed a resolution disabling the aggrieved individual from taking action against the Government.
The commission of the Volksraad estimated that between 1897 and 1899 it would be necessary to import 430,000 cases in addition to the quantity produced by the company.
British Government on behalf of the mining industry of the Transvaal, were founded solely upon the statement of the Volksraad Commission itself.
State railways was granted on April 16th, 1884, to a group of Hollander and German capitalists, and confirmed by the Volksraad on August 23rd following.
It shows how the Volksraad contemptuously rejected, in 1897, a petition signed by more than ten thousand inhabitants of all nationalities and all professions.
Boers felt it expedient to offer a satisfaction of some kind, and, in accordance with their usual methods, conceived in 1890 the device of creating a Second Volksraad, deprived of all executive power, to which naturalised aliens were eligible.
By passing it through the Volksraad as law, he should have cut the cable, were he in reality, anything but an autocrat, and such ratifications anything but mere formalities.
The various schemes for redistribution lead one to the conclusion that the number of members in the First Volksraad were to be in inverse ratio to the population.
Uitlanders in the Volksraad, is, of course, only possible on condition that they had the right to make use of the English language.