By due process of law?: racial discrimination and the right to vote in South Africa, 1855-1960

Abstract

Part 1 The European colonisation of South Africa: the initial invasions 1650-1806 the consolidation and fragmentation of British rule 1806-1880. Part 2 The Boer wars: the first Boer war the independent Boer Republics the second Boer war. Part 3 Securing a white peace: British policy towards the non-white races from military defeat to political victory - the reassertion of the Afrikaaner identity from reconstruction to redemption th emergence of non-white political movements conclusion. Part 4 The Act of Union 1909: the constitutional structure of South Africa conclusion. Part 5 From automony to racial discrimination 1909-1918: state-sponsored racial discrimination 1909-1918 the consolidation and reinforcement of state-sponsored racial discrimination 1919-1930 conclusion. Part 6 Disenfranchising the African: the terms of independence - the Statute of Westminster 1931 a white consensus on native policy? the Hertzog-Smuts coalition government the representation of the Natives Act 1936 Ndlwana v Hofmeyr the Second World War conclusion. Part 7 Harris v Donges (Minister of the Interior) No. 1 - the immediate context: the 1948 general election the Nationalist government - the initial programme judical responses to apartheid. Part 8 Harris v Donges (Minister of the Interior) No. 1 - the litigation: the separate representation of Voters Bill the judgement the reaction conclusion. Part 0 Harris v Minister of the Interior No. 2: the High Court of Parliament Bill the judgements of the Cape Provincial Division and the High Court of Parliament before the appellate division the reaction race discrimination at common law conclusion. Part 10 Collins v Minister of the Interior: the legislation the South Africa Act Amendment Act 1956 the Collins litigation the aftermath conclusion. Part 11 Constitutionalism, parliamentary sovereignty and the common law: electoral apportionment a second legislative chamber the independence of the judiciary constitutions as fundamental law conclusion.