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Title:The cape franchise after union: the Queenstown by-election of December 1921
Author:Garson, NoelISNI
Year:1986
Periodical:African Studies
Volume:45
Issue:1
Pages:61-89
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:elections
1921
election law
Ethnic and Race Relations
History and Exploration
Politics and Government
External link:https://doi.org/10.1080/00020188608707651
Abstract:The actual functioning of the Cape franchise in the context of post-Union politics has been little explored. The twenty years after Union fora an epoch which was ended by the enfranchiseaent of white women in 1930, a measure which at one stroke halved the voting pover of the Cape's enfranchised coloared and African men. This paper first views the Cape franchise as a whole through a combination of statistical information and preliminary inrpressions. The second part is a case study, focusing on a single by-election, viz. of Queenstown in 1921. Notes, ref.
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