Apartheid Laws Flashcards
Population Reg. Act
Effects, def, reason, date
Petty or grand
1950
Gave officials the power to classify people according to their race. The RAC did tests of doubts were there.
Ensure separation of races in all aspects of life because one’s identity is based on their race.
Families were dived as family members were identified differently.
Petty as it maintained separateness.
The Group Areas Act
Effects, def, reason, date
Petty or grand
1950
As well as setting aside separate areas for groups to live it gave authorities the power to do forced removals when an area was declared a white area (remove Africans to live in segregated)
Eg. Sophiatown and District 6
The Native Abolition of Passes and Co ordination of Documents Act
Effects, def, reason, date
Petty or grand
1952
This caused difficulty in traveling to places such as urban areas, caused protests against the dompas
Aimed to control the no. Of black peoples in urban areas with the new identity doc. Called the Dompas which included racial group, permission and personal details.
Failure to produce= arrest
Petty
Control the movement and economic activity of blacks because Blacks with the dompas needed to report to police to go places or work somewhere.
Petty because it maintained apartness in urban areas
Separate Representation of Voters Act
This act ended the cape Coloureds ability to vote in white elections
Grand apartheid this therefore reserved political power for whites because they were the only racial group that could vote and effect the leadership over everyone.
Increase control of whites
The extension of University Education Act
1959 Apartheid is applied to universities and inferior universities were built for racial and ethnic groups. Fort hare: Xhosa Durban Westville: Indians University of Western Cape: Coloureds
Petty
Ensure separation of races in all aspects of life
Immorality Acts
Effects, def, reason, date
Petty or grand
1950
Originally in 1927 it applied between white and blacks. This added Coloureds and Indians
Ensure separate of races in all aspects of life because this is an aspect of one’s personal life that the government controls.
Petty as it maintains apartness
The Urban Areas Amendment Act
1955
‘Locations in the sky act’
Restricted no. Of blacks who could live in white areas.
Petty
Native Laws Amendment Act
Effects, def, reason, date
Petty or grand
1952
Established a system of labour office in rural areas that ensured a steady supply of labour on farms.
Controlled the movement and economic activity of blacks as they were prevented by working in the urban areas.
Bantu Education
Effects, def, reason, date
Petty or grand
1953
schools were brought under government control. African pupils were prepared for life of the homelands. Budget: white>black
Increases the control of the white pop. And controls the movement and economic activity of blacks
Petty
Bantu Authority Act 18
1951
Establishment of Black homeland and regional authorities create self governance
The Native Urban Act
Effects, def, reason, date
Petty or grand
1952
‘The loophole in the strict apartheid laws’
An African was allowed to live in an urban area if:
- He had been born and lived ( 15yrs) there ever since.
- committed no offense
- worked for same employer for 10yrs
- Wife or Child of a urban liver
Petty
Bantu Authorities Act
1951
Gave government the power to appoint tribal chiefs to be representatives of Africans.
Grand apartheid because this reserved political power for whites because this limited the political power of non whites.
Suppression of Communism Act
1950
Banned every political group which brought about “promotion of disturbances and disorder”
Grand: as it reserved political power for whites and limited the power of everyone else who would come against them and therefore prevents future change
Increase the control of white pop.
Prevention of Illegal Squatting
Effects, def, reason, date
Petty or grand
1951
This stoped informal settlements being erected on privately owned lands
Authorities could remove surplus natives and send them to rural reserves
Increased the control of the white population to to have their areas to themselves
Petty
Bantu Homeland Citizenship Act
1970
Blacks in SA were legal citizenship of their homeland
No civil/political rights
