Separate Representation of Voters Act

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Separate Representation Of Voters Act, 1951
... The Separate Representation of Voters Act No ... was part of a deliberate process to remove all non-white people from the voters' roll and revoke the Cape Qualified Franchise system ... This act was declared invalid by the Supreme Court when challenged in the case of Harris v Minister of the Interior 1952(2) SA 428(AD) this gave rise to the Coloured vote constitutional crisis ...

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