Franchise and Ballot Act
Legislation that raised the property requirement for the franchise in South Africa / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Franchise and Ballot Act (1892) was an act of the Cape Colony Parliament, driven by Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes, which raised the property franchise qualification, thus disenfranchising a large proportion of the Cape's non-white voters, and a number of poor white voters.
It was a significant early step in overturning the Cape's liberal and multi-racial constitution.[1][2]