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"Legal Now but Immoral Forever"



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Two Black Sash members protested in silence outside Parliament against the Senate Act, which increased the size of the Senate and gave the National Party a three-quarters majority for the purpose of removing Cape Coloureds from the common voters roll.



August 27, 1955

Collection: Cape Times Collection

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