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This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

1887. Cape Parliamentary Registration Act

This "disfranchised thousands of Africans in the eastern Cape" (Simons & Simons 1969: 49) by excluding "tribal forms of tenure from the property qualifications for the vote" (Davenport 1987: 108). For specifications, see the CAPE CONSTITUTION of 1853 above. See also the GLEN GREY ACT of 1894.

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