[1] The Provincial Council continued to exist until 1986, when its functions were transferred to a strengthened executive authority appointed by the State President.
The administrator was appointed, by the national government, for a five-year term and could not be removed except by the Governor General for "cause assigned".
[5] In 1914, the South African Labour Party had a small majority in the Transvaal Provincial Council.
The Union Parliament had to legislate to provide funds, to avoid the collapse of the provincial public service.
In the Transvaal, the administrator was Jan Hofmeyr (later in his career a leading politician on the liberal wing of the United Party).
As the Nationalist and Labour members had a majority on the provincial council, they demanded a change of administrator.