Everything about The Separate Representation Of Voters Act totally explained
The
Separate Representation of Voters Act No. 46 was introduced in
South Africa on
18 June 1951. Part of the legislation during the
apartheid era, the
National Party introduced it to enforce racial segregation, and was the start of a deliberate process to remove all non-white people from the voters' roll.
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). The government, however, was able to circumvent this decision by increasing the number of Appellate Division judges from five to eleven, and increasing the size of the Senate from forty-eight to forty-nine. These changes enabled the government to successfully introduce the
South Africa Act Amendment Act No 9 of
2 March 1956, effectively overturning the Supreme Court's decision and revalidating the act. This amendment was repealed by the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act 32 of
1961.
The act as a whole was repealed by section 4 of the
Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 50 of
27 March 1968. This bill introduced the
Coloured Persons Representative Council, consisting of forty elected members and twenty nominated members. This council could make laws on
finance,
local government,
education,
community welfare and
pensions, rural
settlements and
agriculture which affected
coloured people. A bill could only be introduced when approved by the Minister of Coloured Relations, as well as requiring the approval of the white
Cabinet. This act was repealed in
1983 by section 101(1) of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act No 110.
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