EVENT INFORMATION

16
April
1958

South Africa holds a whites-only general election

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Organization history 📅 16 April 1958 📍 South Africa

The National Party won the 16 April general election, held under an electoral system that excluded the Black majority. The ANC addressed white voters in a public message, pointing out that they elected the parliament making laws over people who had no vote. This record places the election in the history of political exclusion rather than treating the white electorate as representing the country as a whole.

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People in this event

National Party

ANC

J.G. Strijdom

Black South Africans excluded from the vote

Organizations in this Event

African National Congress