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The Natives Land Act
Prohibited the 2/3 native population from owning any land outside of the "reserves" prepared for them -
Wage Act
Set a standard "minimum wage" for industrial workers. Made so blacks couldn't receive "civilized" pay. -
Representative Natives Act
Removed black African form electoral rolls -
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act
Prohibited any marriage between a white person and a "coloured" person -
Population Registration Act
Created an essential component of the apartheid which was division and classification. -
Immorality Act
Prohibited extramarital sex between white people and any other race. -
Natives Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents Act
Required natives to carry a 90-something page book around with all their documents and permits in order. The length of the name itself shows its ridiculousness. -
Reservation of Separate Amenities Act
Created separate public amenities for races (white, black, coloured, other). Possibly the epitome of the pettiness of the apartheid. -
Bantu Education Act
Abolished the idea of equal education and created separate curriculum for all races with the specific design to prepare blacks for a life of servitude to whites. -
Natives Resettlement Act
Forced all blacks out of the "townships" they had built up outside the cities for easier commute to work. Cleansed the "black spots" of the cities. -
Preservation of Coloured Areas Act
Supposedly nacted to prevent "coloured" land from being taken withour compensation to its owner, but was really a way to further induce "Coloured Areas" in apartheid legislation. -
Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act
Made black people citizens of one bantustan with the intention that once the bantustan gained independence its residents would no longer be South African citizens.
