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[Separate Representation of Voters Act] : Record of proceedings lodged with the Appellate Division in the matter between Edgar Franklin and the said respondents

(Cape Town: "Cape Times Limited", 1952)

Full title reads: 'In the High Court of Parliament. In the matter of an Application for the review in terms of Section 8 of the High Court of Parliament Act, 1952, of the order and judgment of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of South Africa in the Appeals between: (1) Ganief Harris, (2) Edgar Franklin, (3) William Daniel Collins, and (4) Edgar Arthur Deane, Appellants, and Minister of Interior and Electoral Officer (Cape), Respondents. Record of proceedings lodged with the Appellate Division in the matter between Edgar Franklin and the said respondents." 323 x 203 mm; saddle-stitched printed blue wrappers; pp. (iv) + 26. Wrappers a little sunned. Very good condition. An important document in the history of apartheid, with particular relevance to the disenfranchisement of Coloured South Africans. Edgar Franklin was born in Swaziland of mixed parentage in 1911, and like his fellow-appellants, challenged the efforts of the Malan government to deny Coloureds voting rights. "The [Separate Registration of Voters Act] was duly passed, but the battle now moved to the Cape Provincial Division of the Supreme Court after four coloured voters applied for an order restraining the electoral officer from removing their names from the common roll on the grounds that the Act was invalid. They were [Edgar] Franklin, a Woodstock van driver; W D Collins, a Cape Town businessman; Edgar Deane, a trade union worker, and Ganief Harris, a Woodstock bricklayer. The judge dismissed the application for the law to be set aside on the grounds that the court could not question the way the Act had been passed. The four appealed to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, which in February 1951 declared the Act null and void on the grounds that it had not received the two thirds majority assent of both Houses of Parliament." - Christopher Saunders, et al: Illustrated History of South Africa - The Real Story, pp. 394-5. The disenfranchisement of Coloured South Africans was, however, achieved a short time later by the government of D F Malan's successor, J G Strijdom.

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