Pretoria City (House of Assembly of South Africa constituency)

Pretoria City (Afrikaans: Pretoria-Stad) was a constituency in the Transvaal Province of South Africa, which existed from 1938 to 1958. It covered parts of the city centre of Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa. Throughout its existence it elected one member to the House of Assembly and one to the Transvaal Provincial Council.

When the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, the electoral qualifications in use in each pre-existing colony were kept in place. In the Transvaal Colony, and its predecessor the South African Republic, the vote was restricted to white men, and as such, elections in the Transvaal Province were held on a whites-only franchise from the beginning. The franchise was also restricted by property and education qualifications until the 1933 general election, following the passage of the Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930 and the Franchise Laws Amendment Act, 1931. From then on, the franchise was given to all white citizens aged 21 or over. Non-whites remained disenfranchised until the end of apartheid and the introduction of universal suffrage in 1994.^[1]

Pretoria City was a relatively short-lived seat, existing only for twenty years, and confusingly coexisted for that entire period with Pretoria Central - the two seats covering different parts of Pretoria's inner city. Like the rest of Pretoria, the seat initially favoured the United Party, but fell in 1953 to the governing National Party, whose MP, Jan Hendrik Visse, moved to the newly-created seat of Prinshof on Pretoria City's abolition.

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