CENTRAL AFRICA FEDERATION
Voting In Southern Rhodesia (Rec. 10 pan.) SALISBURY, April 8. Southern Rhodesia’s voters will decide tomorrow whether to join m creating a new Dominion of 175,000 Europeans and 6,100,000 Africans. If they agree it is almost certain that the Lepslative Councils of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland will also agree to the plan for a Central African Federation. Voters entitled to decide the federation issue number 49,032. Nearly all are whites, but the total includes 535 Asiatics, 535 coloured and of mixed race, and 429 Africans. Women form about half the voting strength. Sex and colour do not affect voting rights. Voters must be citizens over 21 occupying premises worth more than £5OO or receiving an income of not less than £240. There is also a simple literary qualification. Approval of federation by the British House of Commons is virtually assured. A debate in the House in March, forced by the Labour Opposition, ended in a favourable decision for the scheme. If all goes according to plan, the British Parliament will clear the enabling bill in May.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27010, 9 April 1953, Page 9
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