Gerrymander or Apartheid?

Col insists that an unequal ward structure doesn't constitute a gerrymander. Perhaps a better word would be apartheid, Col, like the South Africa of old where blacks and coloureds had representation but separate and vastly less than their numbers justified.

The South African parliament, from 1984 to 1994, had three separately elected chambers:

• A 178-member White House of Assembly, which was in effect the existing lower house of Parliament.
• An 85-member (Coloured) House of Representatives.
• A 45-member (Indian) House of Delegates.

The key difference is that in the case of South Africa this was an improvement in democratic representation but in the case of Perth and Vincent it would be a distinctly retrograde step.