Salam Abram
Member of the National Assembly
In office
1999–2014
Personal details
Born
Salamuddi Abram
NationalitySouth African
Other political
affiliations		African National Congress
United Democratic Movement

Salamuddi (Salam) Abram is a retired South African politician. He served as a member of Parliament from 1999 until 2014.

Career

Abram became chairperson of the Actonville Town Council liaison committee in 1964.[1] The following year, he was appointed chairperson of the Actonville Consultative Committee.[1] Abram served as a member of the South African Indian Council in 1974.[1]

He served on the steering committee of the president's council, under the chairpersonship of the previous vice president, Alwyn Schlebusch, in 1981.[1] In 1992 Abram was elected as a presiding officer of parliament and chairperson of the House of Delegates, a body in the Tricameral Parliament that was reserved for Indian South Africans.[1] He was elected to the Benoni Town Council in 1993.[1] In 1995 Abram was elected to the Greater Benoni Council and was appointed to serve on the executive committee.[1]

Abram joined the United Democratic Movement in 1997.[1] He was then elected as a Member of Parliament in the 1999 general election.[1] In 2003 he was approached by the national chairperson of the African National Congress, Mosioua Lekota, to join the ANC.[1] He joined the party the next year and was returned to parliament on the party list after that year's general election.[1] Abrams was then assigned to the agriculture and land affairs portfolio committee.[1] He was re-elected to Parliament in 2009.[2] Abram was an outspoken critic of the minister of agriculture, Tina Joemat-Peterson, who was also from the ANC.[3]

Prior to the 2014 general election, Abram resigned from the ANC and quit politics altogether.[3]

Personal life

Abram lives in Benoni, Gauteng.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Matsimela, Maile (30 May 2014). "Seasoned local politician retires". Benoni City Press. Archived from the original on 9 December 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  2. ↑ "List of national assembly MPs". Politicsweb. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  3. 1 2 Yeld, John (24 April 2014). "MP quits ANC over clashes with Tina". IOL. Archived from the original on 9 December 2020. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
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