Prime Minister Strydom, who is bound and determined that the whites shall wield all the power in a nation where they are outnumbered four to one, wanted to get the last non-white votersthe 45,000 colored (mixed-race) folkoff the white voting lists. The High Court said he could not, without a two-thirds vote in Parliament. So the Nationalists decided to pack the Senate to get the bill through, and to pack the court to make sure that it was held constitutional. At that point, many who agreed with Strydom's policy of white dominance...
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