cHAP. 111] THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA 979
of a single Court of Appeal in South Africa, from which no
appeal should lie save by special leave to the Privy Council.!
Before the appeals might come direct to the Privy Council
of right or by special leave from no fewer than three Courts
in the Cape—the Supreme Court proper, the Court of the
Eastern Districts, and the High Court of Griqualand—from
the Supreme Courts of the Transvaal, the Orange River
Colony, and Natal, the Witwatersrand Court, the Native
High Court in Natal, the High Court of Rhodesia, and the
Swaziland Court. By the Act all these Courts are consoli-
dated into one Supreme Court for South Africa, which
consists of two divisions, the Supreme Court and the Appel-
late Division. This division includes the Chief Justice and
two ordinary judges, and two additional judges of appeal
who shall from time to time be assigned from any of the local
or provincial divisions of the Supreme Court to the appellate
division by the Governor-General in Council, but who shall
still do their ordinary work whenever their services can be
spared. The Supreme Courts, including the High Court of
the Orange River Colony and the Court of the Eastern
Districts of the Cape, the High Court of Griqualand, the
Witwatersrand Court, and the several Circuit Courts, will be
provincial and local divisions of the Supreme Court of South
Africa and preserve their original jurisdiction plus jurisdiction
in all suits in which the Union is a party or a provincial
ordinance is challenged as invalid. They will also, unless
Parliament otherwise provides, have jurisdiction in regard
bo electoral questions affecting the Parliament or the Councils.
In future appeals from the superior Courts of the old
Colonies and from the High Court of South Rhodesia, from
which at present appeals lie to the Supreme Courts of the
Colonies—that is, in the case of the Cape, the Court of the
Eastern Districts and the High Court of Griqualand and
the Circuit Courts, and in the Transvaal the Witwatersrand
Court—will lie only to the appellate division of the Supreme
Court, save in the case of orders or judgements by a single
judge on applications and motions of a minor character, or
1 Of, The Qovernment of South Africa, i. 56 seq, ; ii. 14 seq.
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