sentences:  Despite a major campaign by Blacks and Coloureds, the voter franchise remained as in the pre-Union republics and colonies, and only whites could gain election to Parliament.In 1910 the Union of South Africa was created by the unification of four areas, by joining the two former independent Boer republics of the South African Republic ("Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek") and the Orange Free State ("Oranje Vrystaat") with the British dominated Cape Province and Natal.Most significantly, the new self-governing Union of South Africa gained international respect with British Dominion status putting it on par with three other important British dominions and allies