Apartheid Laws (1948-1956)

Question 1

What did the national party instantly do in 1948 to secure their power?

Answer 1

1948-added 6 MPs in Namibia who were Afrikaners (this was because in reality they had a narrow victory in the 1948 election)

Question 2

When was the immortality act?

Answer 2

1949

Question 3

i) What act removed blacks townships from white urban areas?
ii) How many people were forced out of their homes between 1951-1986?
iii) Which famous black cultural township was got rid of in 1950?
iiii) In 1956 how many Indians were removed from Cato manor township in Durban?

Answer 3

i) 1950 group areas act-removed property rights for blacks
ii) 3.5 million people
iii) Sophiatown-affected 60,000 wealthy blacks
iiii) 41,000

Question 4

When was the group areas act?

Answer 4

1950

Question 5

When was the Bantu authorities act and what did it do?

Answer 5

1951 -gave authority to traditional tribal leaders in homelands

Question 6

When was the Bantu self government act and what did it do ?

Answer 6

1959-Transformed native reserves to independent homelands with a self government

Question 7

When was the pass laws urban areas act?

ii) when was the pass laws act extended to women?
iii) what was the numbers involved in the convictions of those who did not have passes?
iii) Did the pass laws succeed in decreasing black migrant labour?

Answer 7

1952-police heavily enforced it (stop and search).

ii) 1956
iii) 1952=164,324 1962=384,497

iiii) no it was a failure urban black population increased from
1946=1.8million
1960=3.5 million(more than the white population)

Question 8

What did the 1953 separate amenities act do?

Answer 8

Legalised petty apartheid

Question 9

I)When was the Bantu education act?

ii)who was the architect for it?

Answer 9

I) 1953

ii)Verwoerd

Question 10

When was the separate representation of voters act and what did it do?

Answer 10

1956 meant only whites could vote

Question 11

Name two individuals who helped implement apartheid?

Answer 11

Hans Strijdom=

• prime minster(1954-1958)
• member of baasskap(supremacist faction)

Hendrik Verwoerd-minister is native affairs under dr Malan 1950(architecture of the 1953 Bantu education act)
-prime minister (1958-1961)