Editorial Note

On March 20, 1952, the highest court in the Union of South Africa, the Appeal Court, delivered a unanimous decision that the Separate Representation of Voters Act (May 1951), under which approximately 38,000 Colored citizens, were to be removed from the common voting rolls in Cape Province, was null and void and that the Union Government had acted unconstitutionally in attempting to place the Coloured voters on a separate voters roll. Documentation on this subject is located in files 745A.00 and 845A.411.