South Africa Act 1909

The South Africa Act 1909 was the act of the British Parliament that united the Cape Colony, Natal, the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony as the Union of South Africa, which came into being on 31 May 1910. Based on a constitution drafted by a national convention of the colonies, it placed parliament at Cape Town, the executive at Pretoria and the appeal court at Bloemfontein, and largely restricted the franchise to whites outside the Cape.