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    The South Africa Act 1909 (9 Edw. 7. c. 9) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that created the Union of South Africa out of the former...
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    Section 18 of South Africa Act, 1909. Section 23 of South Africa Act, 1909. Section 109 of South Africa Act, 1909. "The South Africa Act, 1909". The American...
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    1943 onward only South Africans (in fact, only Afrikaners) held the office. The office was established by the South Africa Act 1909. Until the Balfour...
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    mostly delegated to the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa. The South Africa Act 1909 united four British colonies: Cape of Good Hope, Natal...
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  • of South Africa was the same as the succession to the British throne. During the Abdication Crisis the South African parliament passed its own act, "His...
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    of Constitutional Laws Act, neither it nor the acts amending it are allocated act numbers. The South Africa Act 1909, an act of the Parliament of the...
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  • whereas his counterpart in the House of Assembly was the Speaker. The South Africa Act 1909, which created the Senate, included special provisions for the selection...
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  • Ireland Act of Union 1840, passed by the Parliament of the UK, joining Upper Canada and Lower Canada to form the Province of Canada South Africa Act 1909, passed...
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    of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949, followed closely by the Immorality Amendment Act of 1950, which made it illegal for most South African citizens to marry...
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    the Union of South Africa was created as a self-governing dominion of the British Empire on 31 May 1910 in terms of the South Africa Act 1909, which amalgamated...
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  • of South Africa Constitution Act, 1961) was the fundamental law of South Africa for two decades. Under the terms of the constitution South Africa left...
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  • za/documents/constitution-republic-south-africa-1996. United Kingdom. South Africa Act, 1909. Available at https://media.law.wisc.edu/s/c_8/jzhy2/cbsa1.pdf United...
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    14 January 2022. South Africa Act 1909 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1961 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1983 Constitution...
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  • British organisations. The Union of South Africa was created on 31 May 1910 by the South Africa Act 1909, an act of the British Parliament. The House...
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    Crime in South Africa includes all violent and non-violent crimes that take place in the country of South Africa, or otherwise within its jurisdiction...
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  • The South African intervention in Lesotho, codenamed Operation Boleas, was a military invasion launched by the Southern African Development Community...
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    General elections were held in South Africa between 26 and 29 April 1994. The elections were the first in which citizens of all races were allowed to take...
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    NP), also known as the Nationalist Party, was a political party in South Africa from 1914 to 1997, which was responsible for the implementation of apartheid...
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    for South Africa's different black ethnic groups. Under the Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act of 1970, the government stripped black South Africans of their...
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    South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798...
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  • Immorality Act was the title of two acts of the Parliament of South Africa which prohibited, amongst other things, sexual relations between white people...
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    Commission (TRC) was a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa in 1996 after the end of apartheid. Authorised by Nelson Mandela and...
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  • The Mines and Work Act was a piece of legislation in South Africa, originally passed in 1911, amended in 1912 and 1926 before undergoing further changes...
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    to the 150 general roll seats allocated to the Union of South Africa. The South Africa Act 1909 had provided for a delimitation commission to define the...
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    proportional representation, by means of the single transferable vote. The South Africa Act 1909 provided that the franchise in each province should be the same...
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  • Commission Territories to be the ultimate territorial arrangement: the South Africa Act 1909 made provisions for admitting Rhodesia as a fifth province of the...
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    Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange...
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    part of South African cultural heritage and a symbol of racism. The Population Registration Act required the classification of South Africans into racial...
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    Cape Qualified Franchise (category 20th century in South Africa)
    Colony, and in the Cape Province in the early years of the Union of South Africa. Qualifications for the right to vote at parliamentary elections were...
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    30 June to fall after five years from the date of election). The South Africa Act 1909 had provided for a delimitation commission to define the boundaries...
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