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Agent Safron
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Cape Culture / History
Sep 20 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
🧵 Thread: The Cape Qualified Franchise – A Historical Overview 🏛️

1/ The Cape Qualified Franchise was a voting system introduced in the Cape Colony in 1853, allowing men of all races to vote if they met certain property and income requirements. Image 2/ The system was part of the Cape's 1853 Constitution, which prohibited discrimination based on race or colour, making it one of the earliest examples of non-racial suffrage in Southern Africa. Image