Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930

Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930
Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930
Parliament of South Africa
	Long title Act to provide for the registration of women as voters and for their voting in the election of members of the House of Assembly and Provincial Councils, and for their capacity to be nominated, elected and to sit and vote as Senators, Members of the House of Assembly or of Provincial Councils. ;
Citation	Act No. 18 of 1930
Enacted by	white women over the age of 21.
Keywords
	women's suffrage
	Status: Repealed

The Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930, was an

white women aged 21 and older the right to vote and to run for office. It also had the effect of diluting the limited voting power of non-white people (in the Cape Province) by effectively doubling the number of white voters. It was enacted by the National Party government of Prime Minister J. B. M. Hertzog

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The first general election at which women could vote was

Parktown for the South African Party

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The act enfranchised all white women, while certain property qualifications still applied to men. In June 1931 the

electoral divisions was still based on the white male population until April 1937, when the Electoral Quota Act, 1937

altered it to be based on the whole white population.

The Women's Enfranchisement Act was repealed in 1946 when the franchise laws were consolidated into the Electoral Consolidation Act, 1946.

References

Scully, Pamela (2000). "White maternity and black infancy: The rhetoric of race in the South African women's suffrage movement, 1895–1930". In Fletcher, Ian Christopher; Mayhall, Laura E. Nym; Levine, Philippa (eds.). Women's Suffrage in the British Empire: Citizenship, nation and race. London: Routledge. pp. 68–84.
ISBN 041520805X
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"The women's suffrage movement". South African History Online. Retrieved 21 April 2012.

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