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Black Land Act
This act had not allowed blacks to own or rent land outside their designated territory which was only about 7% of land in the country. This significance of this act was that it was the first law to incorporate segregation into legislation. -
Industrial Conciliation Act
This act prohibited extra-marital intercourse between whites and blacks. This act marked an important ban on mixed marriages which was a important component of Apartheid legislation. -
Representation of Blacks Act
This act would not allow black people to be on the same roll to vote as the white people. Thus black people were placed on a separate roll and were only represented by four white senators. -
Aliens Act
This act had restricted certain people into the Union but had allowed every person to have a surname. It is was trying to stop Jewish immigrants who were trying to get into South Africa. -
Industrial Conciliation Act
This act allowed trade unions and employer's organisations to be registered and regulated. It would also allow arguments to be settled between workers and bosses. It would also control the conditions of the work place. -
Group Areas Act
This act entitles that certain racial groups have to live in areas only for those groups. Based on their classification group, people are restricted to their own area. This was another cruel law of the Apartheid system. -
Internal Security Act (Suppression of Communism Act)
This specific act did not allow many organizations to promote communism. Many in South Africa saw this act as an act would encourage feelings of hostility and trying to achieve change. -
Black Building Workers
This act did not allow black people to work in the building industry alongside white workers. This act showed another law discriminating against the colored. -
Blacks (Prohibition of Interdicts)
It did not allow Africans to get a court interdict so that they could suspend their banishment order. It was another law that formed alongside the racial segregation in the Apartheid System. -
Extension of University Education Act
This allowed the Minister of Bantu Education to design colleges for specifically black people. Black students were not allowed to white colleges without a permit. This was a turning point in the Apartheid System.
