beginning of apartheid Flashcards
worries of Afrikaners
blacks flocking to towns and staying there
blacks had started taking over skilled jobs
NP offered
the policy of ‘apartheid’ - meant no integration nor rights for blacks
NP win
in 1948 and stayed in power until 1994
apartheid means
separateness
Population Registration Act
1950
racial groups: white, native and coloured
in 13 years, there were still 20,000 unclassified people
Immorality Act 1950
banned sex between races
over next ten years 3890 were found guilty
Group Areas Act
1950
non-whites were kept out of towns and cities
in 1980, over 60% of blacks still lived outside ‘their’ areas
Pass Laws
blacks found this humiliating and many whites complained about it
Natives Act
from 1952 all blacks had to carry a reference book
in an average year 400,000 were arrested
Native Law Amendment Act
1952
restricted black movement
Petty Apartheid
in 1955, the Motor Transport Act introduced apartheid on public transport
public premises could be reserved for just one race
White voters only
1948 Indians stopped being represented in Parliament
1956 all coloured voters taken off the lists
Bantu Education Act
1953
different syllabus for Blacks
black teachers earned £320 a year, whites earned £603
1959
non-whites were now banned from university
Sophiatown
Jan 1955 152 families told to leave
9 Feb 2000 police forced people out- took six years to destroy the town
