"own affairs". Cases of disagreements between the three houses of Parliament on specific legislation would be resolved by the President's Council. It consisted of 60 members—20 members appointed by the House of Assembly, 10 by the House of Representatives, five by the House of Delegates and 25 directly by the State President. Although ostensibly based on population figures, the numerical composition of the electoral college and the President's Council meant that the white chamber could not be outvoted by the other two chambers. Thus, the real power remained in white hands—and in practice, in the hands of Botha's National Party, which had a large majority in the white chamber. For all intents and purposes, Botha held nearly all governing power in the nation. The constitution made no provision for the representation of Black South Africans. Botha's government stripped blacks of their South African citizenship and legally considered them citizens of the homelands, in which they were expected to exercise their political rights. Location The House of Assembly met in the Assembly chamber at the Houses of Parliament in Cape Town. The House of Representatives met in the former Senate chamber. The House of Delegates met in a new building across the road from the Houses of Parliament which also housed a chamber for joint sittings of the three houses of the Tricameral Parliament. Currently (2020) the National Assembly meets in the chamber built for joint sittings of the former Tricameral Parliament while the National Council of Provinces is housed in the old Senate chamber. The decor of the National Assembly chamber still retains the theme incorporating wooden panels of tessellating sets of three triangles. Dissolution In 1994, ten years after the Tricameral Parliament was formed, one of the last pieces of legislation it passed was the Interim Constitution of 1993, which paved the way for the first non-racial elections that were held on 27 April of that year. See also Politics of South Africa Tricameralism United Nations Security Council Resolution 554 References Defunct national legislatures Defunct organisations based in South Africa Apartheid government Organisations associated with apartheid 1984 disestablishments 1994 disestablishments in South Africa Tricameral legislatures