SOUTH AFRICAN SENATE
NEW BILL OPPOSED BY UNIVERSITY (Rec. 8 p.m.) PORT ELIZABETH, May 19. Professors and lecturers at Rhodes University, in Grahamstown, • today joined other South African senior scholars in protesting against the Nationalist Government s bill to reorganise the Senate. But senior dons at the Orange Free State University at Bloemfontein later replied with a statement supporting the ’The bill would increase the Senate from 48 to 89 members and alter the .manner in which it was elected, giving the Government the joint two-thirds majority necessary for the removal of Cape coloured voters from the common
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27664, 21 May 1955, Page 7
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