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Apartheid Laws
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Black Land Act
This act prevented blacks from owning or renting land outside of their reservations. http://africanhistory.about.com/od/apartheidlaws/g/No27of13.htm -
Industrial Conciliation Act
Provided for job reservation. Excluded blacks from membership of registered trade unions, prohibited registration of black trade unions. -
Black (Native) Administration Act
"[Section 5(1)(b) provided that ‘whenever he deemed it expedient in the public interest, the minister might, without prior notice to any persons concerned, order any tribe, portion thereof, or individual black person, to move from one place to another within the Republic of South Africa’ (Horrell 1978: 204)]" Section 29: Prevented hostility between blacks and whites -
Immorality Act
No extramarital affairs between whites and blacks -
Development Trust and Land Act No 18:
"Expanded the reserves to a total of 13%, 6 per cent of the land in South Africa and authorised the Department of Bantu Administration and Development to eliminate
‘black spots’ (black-owned land surrounded by white-owned land) (Horrell 1978: 203). The South African Development Trust (SADT) was established and could, in terms of the Act, acquire land in each of the provinces for black settlement." -
Aliens Act No 1
Restricted and regulated the entry of certain aliens into the Union and regulated the right of any person to assume a surname -
Black Native Laws Amendment
Urban (Land -related law) Prohibited acquisition of land in urban areas by blacks from non-blacks except with the Governor-General’s consent -
Asiatic Land Tenure (and Indian Representation)
"Granted Indians separate representation by three white members of Parliament and two senators in the Central Parliament." This chapter of the law was rejected by the Indian population and the Act was repealed by the Asiatic Laws Amendment Act No 47 of 1948. The chapter on land tenure was repealed by the Aliens Control Act No 96 of 1991." It shows that Asians have no representation in government. -
Criminal Law Amendment
Civil Disobedience was punishable by three-years in jail Deters Black and colored South Africans from protesting for their rights. -
Transkei Constitution Act
Self-government is given to Transkei Yet, Transkei's government did not have much power over the people as the South African government took a majority of the power anyway.
