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Atlanta Daily World
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
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In Cape Town, South Africa, Prime Minister Strijdom's government won a 170-65 parliamentary vote on racial segregation bills removing mixed-blood voters from common rolls. Protesting white women from the Women's Defense of the Constitution league were ejected from the gallery for wearing protest symbols; Labor Party members walked out in protest.
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CAPETOWN, SOUTH AFRICA- (ANP) -Angry white women demonstrators, shouting cries of "police state." were ordered out of the gallery last Tuesday as Prime Minister Johannes Strijdom's Nationalist government won a test vote on bills containing the heart of the government's racial segregation policy.
At a joint session of both houses of parliament, Strijdom's supporters voted 170-65 for measures which would remove persons of mixed blood from the common electoral rolls and block the Supreme Court from rejecting the move as unconstitutional.
Members of the South African Women's Defense of the Constitution league came into the public gallery wearing black sashes. They were told to remove them, which they did, replacing them with artificial black roses.
When ordered to remove the roses -the women walked out but later were allowed to return to the gallery They were still wearing the roses
A handful of Labor Party members also walked out of the crowded chamber. Alexander Hepple, their leader, branded the joint session a packed parliament and a fraud and said his party would have no further part in it
At the end of the first day of debate on the bills, Strijdom said that his government has repeatedly received a mandate from the people to set up separate electoral rolls for whites and persons of mixed blood.
The bill would end a constitutional right for the 45,000 mixed blood voters to vote as white people, a right they have held since the days of the original British colony here.
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Capetown, South Africa
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Last Tuesday
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voted 170-65 for measures which would remove persons of mixed blood from the common electoral rolls and block the supreme court from rejecting the move as unconstitutional
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Angry white women demonstrators from the South African Women's Defense of the Constitution league protested in the public gallery during a joint session of both houses of parliament, shouting 'police state' and wearing black sashes replaced with artificial black roses. They were ordered out but later allowed to return. A handful of Labor Party members, led by Alexander Hepple, walked out, branding the session a packed parliament and a fraud. Prime Minister Johannes Strijdom's Nationalist government won the test vote on bills containing the heart of the government's racial segregation policy. Strijdom stated his government has repeatedly received a mandate to set up separate electoral rolls for whites and persons of mixed blood, ending a constitutional right for 45,000 mixed blood voters to vote as white people.