Esme Chait

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Esme Chait
Member of the National Assembly
In office
May 1994 – June 1999
Personal details
CitizenshipSouth Africa
Political partyNational Party

Esme Joy Chait is a South African politician who represented the National Party (NP) in Parliament from 1987 to 1999. She was first elected to the apartheid-era House of Assembly in the 1987 general election; although she lost the election to represent her constituency in the Cape, she was indirectly elected from the NP's party list.[1] In South Africa's first post-apartheid elections in 1994, she was elected to a single term in the new National Assembly, still representing the NP.[2][3] She is Jewish.[1][3]

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  2. ^ "Members of the National Assembly". Parliament of South Africa. 3 June 1998. Archived from the original on 28 June 1998. Retrieved 12 April 2023.
  3. ^ a b "More Jews Than Ever Serving in South African Parliament". Jewish Telegraphic Agency. 1 June 1994. Retrieved 20 April 2023.