CAPE VOTING RIGHTS
Dr. Malan’s New Move
(Rec. 11 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, Sept. 18. Dr. Malan’s Nationalist Government will launch a new move today in the long contest to remove the mixed race population of the Cape province from the common European electoral roll. Rebuffed in its attempt to legislate for the change, the Government now hopes to secure its objective by amending the law governing the highest Court of Appeal. This Court’s ruling that the Cape Coloureds’ position on the common roll was guaranteed under the Constitution precipitated a long constitutional argument.
Dr. Malan failed on September 16 to gain a two-thirds majority from a joint session of Parliament, which would have validated the Cape Coloureds’ Bill as an amendment to the Constitution.
The exact nature of the bill, to be presented today by the Minister of Justice (Mr Charles Swart) is not yet known.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27149, 19 September 1953, Page 7
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