Bhadrakumar Ghaloo "Bhadra" Ranchod (born 1943 or 1944) is a retired South African politician, diplomat, and lawyer who served as Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly from May 1994 to March 1996.
He resigned from the National Assembly in March 1996 in order to take up another diplomatic posting as South African High Commissioner to Australia.
[1]In May 1987, UPI reported that Ranchod had twice applied unsuccessfully for an exemption from the Group Areas Act, seeking permission to buy a home near his university in the white-designated suburb of Westville, Durban.
He and two others appointed at the same time – Jacobus Rabie and Abe Williams – became the first non-white politicians to serve in the South African cabinet, in a move viewed as an attempt by de Klerk's National Party (NP) to broaden its appeal ahead of the upcoming multiracial elections.
[7] In early 1996, Ranchod announced that he would resign from the National Assembly in March to become South African High Commissioner to Australia.