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2023-12-12T22:20:48+00:00
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Been doing a deep dive into the period following #Rhodesian Independence in 1965. Constitutionally and in practise there was nothing preventing blacks from voting. Indeed it might be the fairest and most equitable system I've ever looked at. The Parliament was divided in 50 A roll seats and 16 B roll seats. To qualify to be an A roll voter you merely had to pay tax on the rough equivalent of $12,000 in income. Black, white, martians etc only those who contributed had the say. Of the 50 seats 16 were reserved for rural districts, hence the metropolitan areas couldn't completely dominate the vast majority of the country as we see in American elections. The 16 B roll seats didn't even require citizenship to qualify for the vote, migrant workers etc could cast a ballot. Again there was a, very low, income tax paid threshold. There was also a mechanism which would expand the B roll seats dependant upon the amount of tax paid. Once parity between the higher earners ( in practise less than 100,000 people) and the lower earners was reached ( about 5 million people) in terms of tax paid the Parliament would be equal with 50 seats each. Hence housewives or house husbands wouldn't get an A roll vote, preventing #feminists or other scum. The beneficiaries of the dole couldn't vote themselves more benefits. Also a Senate with 10 of 23 seats reserved for tribal Chiefs, the only traditional form of governance in Africa. Note that the Constitution and Electoral Acts were debated and passed by the UK Parliament and signed into law by the Queen. Note that the UN Mandate under which #Israel claims legitimacy specified that a Constitution with certain stipulations had to be enacted before the end of 1948. They're 75 years late to have a shred of the legitimacy that Rhodesia oozed from every pore.--#redpill#africa