Word: saale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...constitution the hateful clause that for 45 years has guaranteed voting rights to 50,000 mixed-blood citizens. In Pretoria a handful of black-sashed members of the Women's Defense of the Constitution League took up their stations of mute protest outside the old brownstone Raad-saal where Premier Strydom staged his show. Inside, opposition United Party Leader J.G.N. Strauss denounced the proceedings as "immoral and unconstitutional," then walked out with all his followers. Thereupon the Nationalists, inflated their countrywide majority to 77 of the Senate's 89 members...