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Black Land Act No. 27
Prohibited blacks from owning or renting land outside designated reserves (approximately 7 per cent of land in the country). Significance: Blacks are being shut out from basic rights like buying land. -
Black (Native) Administration Act No. 38, Section 5(1)(b)
The prime minister of S. Africa has the right, whenever he sees fit for the public interest, to order any tribe, portion thereof, or individual black person, to move from one place to another within the Republic of S. Africa. Significance: Blacks were not informed of when they would be removed, leaving them no time to take in what was about to happen. This law would impact the lives of many families and ruin the way they could live comfortably. -
Immorality Act No. 5
Intercourse outside of marriage between blacks and whites was prohibited Significance: Government is becoming involved in the very personal lives of people within S. Africa in order to segregate race as much as possible. -
Representation of Blacks Act No. 12
Black voters removed from common roll and placed on separate roll. Blacks then represented by four white senators. Significance: Blacks now had no representation for themselves. They now had to watch white senators, the people undermining them, decide what was best for the government. -
Natives (Urban) Consolidation Act No. 25
Introduced influx control – applicable only to black males. People deemed to be leading idle or dissolute lives or who had committed certain offences could be removed from an urban area. Significance: Blacks could now be removed from urban areas solely based off the fact that they “appeared” to be not doing much – they aren’t doing anything wrong. -
Population Registration Act No. 30
Required every person, along with their race, to be registered to one of four distinct racial groups. Significance: This act was much more rigid than previous race classification laws because it made it much easier to remove unwanted races from certain areas – there was now legal documentation of who was what race. -
Group Areas Act No. 41
Provided for areas to be declared exclusively for one racial group. It became mandatory that people live in an area of their classification group. Significance: Blacks and other people of color are beginning to become isolated from other racial groups outside of their own. It makes them more vulnerable to white authority. -
Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act No. 52
Prohibited people from entering land/building without lawful reason, or remaining there without the owner’s permission. Significance: This act treats blacks like animals who only are allowed a building if they have permission, or if they have sort of purpose in that building. -
Black Building Workers Act No. 27
Prohibited blacks from performing skilled work in building industry in white urban areas. Significance: This act makes it nearly impossible for blacks to earn a decent wage. For the blacks that have the skills to do skilled work, they’re training is now irrelevant. Blacks look unqualified to do anything, even when they are. -
Representation between Republic of South Africa and Self-Governing Territories Act (Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act) No. 46
Provided for transformation of reserves into fully independent bantustans. Abolition of parliamentary representation for blacks. Significance: Bantustans are official and blacks are officially separated from others in their own home country. The lack of parliamentary representation also hurts their say in government happenings.
