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Natives Land Act
Prohibited Africans (2/3 of population) from owning and anywhere outside of certain parcels of territory designated as native reserves; this was only roughly 7.5% of the total land area in South Africa; this made areas were blacks lived overcrowded -
Natives (Urban Areas) Act
Outlined qualifications for black people to live in urban areas; native advisory boards regulated influx control and removed 'surplus' people; for example, those who were not employed in the area; blacks were stuck in the native reserves if they couldn't get a job in the city -
Mines and Works Amendment Act
Created a color bar in industry; blacks could only find jobs that had lower wages which made it difficult for them to have a successful and comfortable life -
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act
Prohibited marriages between people of different races; in the three years before its enactment, mixed marriages accounted for just 0.23% of the marriages in the country - part of petty apartheid as it doesn't amount to much consequence for blacks -
Group Areas Act
Declared that the city centers were for whites only (even though blacks still had jobs in the city); demeaning for blacks as they could no longer occupy same civic spaces as whites and had little education potential -
Population Registration Act
Division and classification of racial groups in South Africa; creation of a national population registry which was neither scientific nor rigorous; their race would be determined, then recorded in their official identity documents - more evidence of their race -
Pass Laws Act
Abolished traditional passes; replaced them with more comprehensive documents that citizens had to carry at all times; the police strictly enforced this act and conducted checks regularly with many people imprisoned; government wanted constant surveillance of Black Africans -
Bantu Education Act
Made it mandatory for schools to admit students from one racial group only; races had distinct curriculum (blacks' was inferior); the spending was at least 7 to 1 in favor of whites; the education was designed specifically to prepare Africans for life of economic servitude -
Reservation of Separate Amenities Act
Strict segregation of all public amenities by race; non-whites risked arrest and imprisonment if they used whites-only facilities; hotels, restaurants, etc. were instructed to refuse admittance to non-whites; whites-only signs became a constant feature in South Africans landscape -
Bantu Self-Governing Act
Divided African population into eight distinct groups, each with a white Commissioner-General; the government could now argue that black South Africans were not its political responsibility which abolished the already limited indirect representation of Africans in Parliament
