By Our Reporter
CAPE TOWN (CONVERSEER) – Below are the top Apartheid Laws against blacks in South Africa, some of which are still in existence. These laws were violently enforced by the whites.
1. Population Registration Act (1950) – Classified all South Africans by race, forming the basis of all other apartheid laws.
2. Group Areas Act (1950) – Forced racial groups to live in separate areas; led to mass forced removals.
3. Pass Laws Act (1952) – Required Black South Africans to carry passbooks to move or work outside designated areas.
4. Bantu Education Act (1953) – Created an inferior school system designed to limit Black South Africans to menial labour.
5. Separate Amenities Act (1953) – Enforced racial segregation in public facilities like parks, buses, toilets, and beaches.
6. Suppression of Communism Act (1950) – Used to ban anti-apartheid activists and silence political opposition.
7. Natives (Abolition of Passes and Coordination of Documents) Act (1952) – Consolidated pass laws into an internal passport system controlling all Black movement.
8. Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) – Banned marriages between white people and people of other races.
9. Immorality Amendment Act (1950) – Criminalised sexual relations between white people and non-white people.
10. Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act (1970) – Stripped Black South Africans of national citizenship and assigned them to “homelands.”
11. The Natives Land Act (1913): Prohibited land ownership, restricting ownership to only 7% for black native majorities and allowed white minorities to take ownership and control of the remaining 93% with historic riches ( i.e., mineral riches or mines and arable land).
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