Petty Apartheid Laws Flashcards
When was the prohibition of mixed marriages act?
What act banned sexual relations within marriages before apartheid?
1949
Surprisingly mixed marriages were not illegal before 1949 however sexual relations within marriages were
according to the 1927 immorality act.
-1927 immorality act
When was the immorality act?
What did it entail?
1950
Banned sexual relations between people of different ethic groups.white people could also be imprisoned for disobeying although there punishment was not as severe as for members of other groups
When was the population registration act?
When and what did a later amendment to the act place greater stress on?
1950
- designated the ethic category of everyone everyone was issued with a identity card.
- later amendments to the act was in 1964 and and placed greater stress in appearance and genealogy
When was the abolition of passes and coordination of documents act (pass laws)?
What did it entail?
Who did they now involve?
How many arrests were there because of it?
What did it say about the requirements of a black pension living in a urban area?
1952
Blacks now had to carry reference books instead of passes whereas other ethic groups only had to carry identity cards.
It now involved women
Led to 968,593 arrests
They could only live there if they were born there,lived there for over 15 years or been with the same employer for 10 years
When was the separate representation of voters act?
What did it entail?
-1951
Removed the right of voting from coloured(mixed race) in the cape province
