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Black Land Act No.27
This act prevented blacks in South Africa from renting land that was outside the designated reserves. This allowed for the whites to forcibly remove blacks later on into bantustans without blacks having some sort of land to compensate. -
Mines and Works Amendment Act
It reenacted the Mines and Works Act of 1911. It basically continued the discrimination of not letting blacks get acheivement certificates and only letting whites achieve them. This prevented blacks from working in mines and they were devoid of a potential job opportunity and income. -
Immorality Act No.5
This act prohibited interracial marriage. This was later followed by the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, which accomplished the same thing. This made discrimination and separation between blacks and whites greater. -
Development Trust And Land Act No.18
This act expanded the amount of reserved land to 13 percent, making it to 6 percent of the land of South Africa. It also used the Department of Bantu Administration and Development to eliminate black spots and could acquire the land. This prevented blacks from having property even in places that were not fully white controlled and only surrounded them. -
Black (Native) Laws Amendment Act No.46
This prohibited blacks from purchasing land from non-blacks unless there was consent from the Governor-General's consent. This was another step by the government to prohibit and prevent blacks from purchasing land to try and settle or create a home. This was a stepping stone for the bantustans. -
Group Areas Act No.41
This act provided the land for a certain group to reside in. This act was significant because it reserved land for blacks to reside in and allowed for them to be forcibly removed. These lands would later be called Bantustans and was the basis of segregation and Apartheid in South Africa. -
Population Registration Act No.30
This act required people at birth to be classified into four different ethnic groups. This was more rigid than other registration laws in the past. This allowed discrimination to happen from the very beginning of someone's life and put them in separate groups. -
Black (Native) Laws Amendment Act No.54
This Act forced black people to carry passes to wherever they went and could not stay in an urban for longer than 72 hours unless they were given permission. This act was important because it made blacks have to have passes to go anywhere and were restricted to places where they could travel in their homeland. -
Reservation of Separate Aminities Act No.49
This act allowed for certain public utilities and transport to be reserved to certain racial groups. This allowed for blacks and other non-whites to have some priveliges and some sort of separation or method of going to a place or using resources without breaking the law. -
Black Education Act No.47
This Act formalized the segregation of the black education and it made blacks follow the Bantu Education. This act made black people learn skills that would be useful for hard labor, but were not given the same education as that of whites, who were taught higher level education and education was designed for blacks to be put into the work force.
