page_title: Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope
section_title: Move towards Union
hierarchical_section_title: Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope / The new Parliament building / Move towards Union
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Bibliotheek Afrika-Studiecentrum. Vijf delen uit de reeks verslagen en bijlagen van het parlement van de Britse kolonie Kaap de Goede Hoop, 1883 English: Library of the African Studies Centre, Leiden. Five tomes of the Appendix to Votes and Proceedings to Parliament, 1883. Cape of Good Hope.
context_page_description: The Parliament of the Cape of Good Hope functioned as the legislature of the Cape Colony, from its founding in 1853, until the creation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, when it was dissolved and the Parliament of South Africa was established. It consisted of the House of Assembly and the legislative council.
context_section_description: In the early twentieth century, following the tumults of the Anglo-Boer wars, the whole of southern Africa was finally under the control of the British Empire. The union of the various component states of the region was again discussed. Several previous attempts at union had failed, but in 1909 a National Convention was instituted in Cape Town, to unite the Cape of Good Hope with Natal, the Transvaal, and the Orange Free State, to form a united country of "South Africa". 
  The Convention met in the Cape Assembly's chamber of the Cape Parliament building, and it was here that the new constitution for South Africa was drawn up.
  The Union of South Africa was proclaimed the following year, in 1910, and the old Cape Parliamentary building became the home of the new Parliament of South Africa. The provincial government of the Cape, now the "Cape Province", was set up in a new building nearby, the Pronvisiale-gebou.
caption: Five tomes of Appendix to Votes and Proceedings to Parliament, 1883
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