FEMALE FRANCHISE
SOUTH AFRICAN DISCUSSION. MENACE OF BLACK WOMEN. (By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright.) CAPETOWN, February 16. (Received February 17, 7.5 p.mJ The Assembly by 54 votes to 48 read a second time a Women’s Franchise Bill, which was referred to a select committee. This course was advocated by General Smuts, who, while supporting the measure, emphasised the difficulty regarding the Cape Province where native men are eligible to vote and urged in view of this the need to establish a single qualification for women in all four provinces. He indicated that he was providing safeguards to prevent such native women as were, obviously unfit from exercising the vote. In doing so, apparently the Premier’s idea is to impose a higher qualification on women than on men. Speeches opposing the Bill stressed the fact that there was extreme danger in extending the vote to women in a country where blacks enormously preponderated.
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Southland Times, Issue 19173, 18 February 1924, Page 6
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