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Mines and Works Act No 12
• Permitted the granting of certificates of competency for a number of skilled mining occupations to whites and coloureds only
• Limited the jobs that Africans could hold, therefore couldn’t earn enough money to live a better life. Subjecting them to poverty with low paying jobs -
Black Land Act No 27
• Prohibited blacks from owning or renting land outside designated reserves
• This limited blacks to only being able to live in certain plots of land while the whites had the rest. -
Native (Black) Urban Areas Act No 21
• Made each local authority responsible for the blacks in its area. ‘Native advisory boards’ regulated influx control and removed ‘surplus’ people, i.e. those who were not employed in the area
• Gave whites the power to monitor specifically which Africans and how many Africans could live in an area. -
Industrial Conciliation Act No 11
• Provided for job reservation. Excluded blacks from membership of registered trade unions, prohibited registration of black trade unions.
• Prohibited blacks from defending their jobs and job equality. They could no longer band together and fight for better conditions and jobs. -
Riotous Assemblies (Amendment) Act No 19
• Authorised the Governor-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 the inhabitants of the Union on the other hand’
• This censored what the blacks were allowed to publish, taking away their right of the press. -
Representation of Blacks Act No 12
• Removed black voters in the Cape from the common roll and placed them on a separate roll (Dugard 1978: 90). Blacks throughout the Union were then represented by four white senators.
• This silenced the black voice in politics, preventing any real change because no matter what they complained about, the four ‘representatives’ wouldn’t listen to them because they were ‘lesser’ -
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 authorized the Department of Bantu Administration and Development to eliminate ‘black spots’
• Further segregated the Blacks from the whites, pushing them into the unfavorable plots of land while the whites took the rest. -
Population Registration Act No 30
• Required people to be identified and registered from birth as belonging to one of four distinct racial groups. This Act was more rigid than earlier race classification laws.
• This further segregated the multiple groups and enforcing the feeling of sovereignty of races based on how many rights they had -
Criminal Law Amendment Act No 8
• Made civil disobedience punishable with a three-year jail sentence
• This act was placed to threaten the black community in South Africa and discouraged them from protesting and fighting for their rights -
Black Education Act No 47
• Formalized segregation of black education and laid the foundations for Bantu Education.
• This limited the education that the blacks received and so with a lower education, it was harder for them to progress in society because they had less job opportunities.
