Discriminatory Legislation 1910-36

Question 1

1911 Mines and Works Act

Answer 1

excluded African people from most skilled jobs in the mines which were reserved for white people

Question 2

1911 Natives’ Labour Regulation Act

Answer 2

set down working conditions for African people.
They were to be recruited in rural areas.
Fingerprinted and issued with pass books which gave them permission to enter their areas of work (was Known as one of the pass laws)

Question 3

1913 Natives Land Act

Answer 3

restricted African ownership of land to 7%of SA
-whites argues this was equivalent to the amount of land blacks occupied before whites moved hinterland

-many blacks forced to work for white farmers or to work under temporary contracts in mines in the cities - necessary because homelands became overcrowded e.g Zululand

• Land they did won was of the poorest quality

Question 4

1923 Native (Urban Areas) Act

Answer 4

• Black people should only remain in cites to administer the needs of the white inhabitants such as domestic servants
• African people employed in industry or mining were expected to live in townships specially built for them on the outskirts of cities and to leave when their contracts ended

Question 5

Industrial Conciliation Act 1924

Answer 5

Restricted the right of African people to organise them self’s into trade unions and negotiate their terms of employment.

They were given no rights as employees

Question 6

1927 Native Administration Act

Answer 6

Set up the department of native affairs (NAD) to control all matters relating to African people

They were thereby separated in law from all other South African people and have no civil rights outside of this structure

Question 7

1936 Native Trust and Land Act

Answer 7

Extended the amount of tribal reserves to 13.6% of the total from the original 7% in the 1913 natives land act

African people weren’t allowed to buy any land outside of tribal reserves

Question 8

Representation of the Natives Act 1936

Answer 8

10,000 people had been able to vote in the Cape on the same basis as white people (if they owned property they could vote)

This act removed these rights

We’re treated as foreigners with no rights of permanent residence outside of designated tribal areas

Leaders in the cape about 4000 were allowed to vote for 4 white representatives to senate
A native representative council was created of six white officials, 4 nominated and 12 elected Africans to represent the views of cape African people in parliament