He resigned from his seat before the end of the legislative term. In the 1994 South African general election, South Africa's first post- apartheid election, Peires was elected to represent the African National Congress in the National Assembly, the lower house of the South African Parliament. He is Jewish and his mother is a published historian of the Holocaust. Peires was born in Cape Town and studied history at the University of Cape Town and University of Wisconsin.
Peires has also worked as a civil servant in the Eastern Cape and represented the African National Congress in the National Assembly for a brief period from 1994. His book about the Xhosa cattle-killing movement of 1856–57, The Dead Will Arise, won the Alan Paton Award in 1990.
Jeffrey Brian Peires is a South African historian at the University of Fort Hare.
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