Apartheid Legislation Flashcards
who headed the apartheid cabinet
D. F. Malan
Daniel Francoise Malan
cabinet
a body of advisors to a head of staff who also serves as the heads of government departments
successor of Malan
J G Strijdom
the system of apartheid
was a deliberate effort to separate the different racial groups in South Africa
when were the laws passed
- 1949 - 1994
Mixed Marriages Act
Prohibited marriage between white peoples and people of other races
- only 75 mixed marriages had been recorded
The immorality Amendment Act
- prohibited sexual intercourse between whites and other population groups
- it hoped to prevent the birth of mixed raced children
illegal
contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law
immoral
not conforming to accepted standards of morality
Population Registered Act
- enabled the government to register the citizens of the country according to racial classification
- everyone had a identity card over 16
- Either ; White / Bantu / Coloured / Other
The group areas act
- keystone of discrimination
- this act forced physical separation between races by creating different residential areas for different races
The Natives (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination Documents) Act
- intensified the pass system in the country, and they had to carry dompas to go places and do things if they couldn’t comply they would be sent to homelands
The bantu education Act
placed all education other than that for whites into the hands of the central government
the reservation of separate amenities act
it introduced the colour bar into public buildings, transport and all public amenities
the promotion of bantu self government act
- the government used this to change the name of the policy of apartheid to separate development
- the country would be divided, the largest parts governed by the whites and the rest divided into ten african homelands (all of them would be independent eventually)
