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The Natives Land Act of 1913
Prohibited Africans, 2/3 of the population, of owning or renting property; only place to live were the designated reserves, only 7.5% of land area in South Africa -
Industrial Conciliation Act of 1924
legal registration for white unions, but not blacks -
Wage Act of 1925
This act gave preferential treatment to whites/ this fixed minimum wages for non-union workers aka blacks -
Mines and Works Amendment of 1926
This Amendment to a previous act reserved jobs in mining and railways for white workers, creating a color bar for the industry. Black workers would get the jobs that no one wanted. -
Representative Natives Act of 1936
This act removed Africans from electoral rolls. Most blacks could not vote anyway, but now every African could not be registered. -
Native Trust and Land Act of 1936
This act was a two-sider. On one hand it extended the designated reserves of the Africans to almost 13%, but it also increased the ability to evict them from their homes. -
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act
This act prohibited marriages between different races. This was an example of "Petty Apartheid" because mixed marriages only accounted for 0.23% of marriages in South Africa. -
Population Registration Act of 1950
This act was essential to the apartheid movement; it divided and classified racial groups in South Africa; people were grouped as White, Bantu, or colored; this created a national population registry -
Pass Laws Act of 1952
This act abolished traditional passes and replaced them with comprehensive documents that Africans were required to carry at all times/ you had to have a permit to enter a city and police checks were sometimes weekly -
Reservations of Separate Amenities Act of 1953
This act put strict segregation of all amenities such as buses, bathrooms, and restaurants by race. The cities were all "Whites-Only"
