Williams & Adendorfp v Johannesburg Municipailty [1915] ZATPD 18 (25 June 1915)

Municipality. - Bye-law. -Discrimination between white and coloured persons.-Tramways.-Ord. 2 (priv.), 1906, sec. 31. Provincial Councils.-Powers discussed

Ord. 2 (priv.), 1906, sec. 31, provided that the Johannesburg Municipality should have the sole and exclusive right to establish, maintain and work electric or mechanically worked tramways for public use within the municipality. The municipality established such a tramway and provided in a bye-law that the council might set apart and licence any carriage for the use of European passengers only and others for the use of coloured passengers only, making it an offence for passengers of the one class to enter or travel in a carriage set apart