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Black Land Act No. 27
Prohibited blacks from owning or renting land outside designated reserves (approximately percent of land in the country). -
Industrial Conciliation Act No. 11
Provided for job reservation. Excluded blacks from membership of registered trade unions, prohibited registration of black trade unions. -
Immorality Act No 5
Extra-marital intercourse between whites and blacks prohibited. -
Riotous Assemblies (Amendment) Act No 19
Authorized the Government-General to prohibit the publication or other dissemination of any 'documentary information...calculated to engender feelings of hostility between the European Inhabitants of the Union on the one hand and any other section of inhabitants of the Union on the other hand'. -
Representation of Blacks Act No 12
Removed black voters in the Cape from the common roll and placed them on a separate roll. Blacks throughout the Union were then represented by four four white senators. -
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 Act No 46
Prohibited acquisition of land in urban areas by blacks from non-blacks except with the Governor-General's consent. -
Natives (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act No 25
Introduced influx control - applicable to black males only. People who were deemed to be leading idle or dissolute lives or had committed certain specified offences could be removed from an urban area. -
Asiatic Land Tenure (and Indian Representation) Act No 28
Granted Indians separate representation by three white members of Parliament and two senators in the Central Parliament. This chapter of the laws was rejected by the Indian population and the Act was repealed by the Asiatic Laws Amendment Act of No 47 of 1948. -
Suppression of Communism Amendment Act No 50
Related to situations where people conspired to overthrow the government, or alternatively to those where people harbored, concealed, failed to report, or assisted those intent on committing so-called acts of terrorism against the state. -
Extension of University Education Act No 45
Empowered the Minister of Bantu Education to designate colleges for specified African ethnic groups. Black students were prohibited from attending the University of Cape Town or the University of Witwatersrand without a permit. -
General Law Amendment Act No 80
Amended the 1963 General Law Amendment Act so that the Minister of Justice could extend the operation of the Sobukwe clause in individual cases. Sobukwe was thus imprisoned until 1969. This clause was re-enacted in amended form in 1976.
