Indians, and Coloureds. In the Cape Colony, although Rhodes's admin-
istration had diminished the black proportion of the total vote in the 1890S,
the franchise laws were still nonracial in form. There, any man could vote
or become a member ofparliament, regardless of race, provided that he was
at least barely literate and that he either earned fifty pounds a year or
occupied a house and land worth seventy-fivepounds, outside the commu-
nalland in the African reserves. In fact, however, no black man ever sat in
the Cape colonial parliament, and in 1909, 85 percent of the registered
voters were Whites, 10 percent Coloured, and 5 percent Africans.s- That
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