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1909 Natal Union of South Africa membership referendum

1909 referendum in the Colony of Natal

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ6967964 ↗
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A referendum on joining the Union of South Africa was held in the Colony of Natal on 10 June 1909. It was approved by 75% of voters, and Natal became part of the Union when it was established on 31 May 1910.

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“1909 Natal Union of South Africa membership referendum” enters the record as 1909 referendum in the Colony of Natal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Natal, Union and South can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “1909 Natal Union of South Africa membership referendum” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.