IB History Paper 1-Apartheid/Discrimination Laws

Population Registration Act

Registration of all people within South Africa into the categories: White, Indian, Coloured, and African. Privileges in society depend on your racial category. White people could travel wherever while African people were exiled to their “homelands”.

Bantustan Education Act (1953)

Started the program of Bantu Education within South Africa. African student would be taught menial and manual labor skills, stop their socio-economic advancement. Seperate schooling for all racial categories, became the norm by 1963.

Separate Amenities Act (1953)

Provide separate spaces for Black, Indian, Colored, and White use. White use prioritized.

Marriage & Intercourse Acts

Immorality Act (1950), Mixed Marriages Act (1949), Immorality Amendment Act (1950, expanded to include all racial categories)

Ban interracial relationships and marriages,

Land Act

Promotion of Bantu Self Government Act (1959)/Asiatic Land Tener (1946)/ Colored People’s Communal Reserve Act (1961)

-Created separate places of living for each racial category in South Africa.

Elimination of Opposition

Communist Suppression Act (1950)- communist defined anything going against nationalist party/applies to any opp group.

Criminal Law Act(1953)-Any person who takes action of defiance to the government, is guilty.

Righteous Assemblies Act (1956)-Anyone whose remotely associated to someone protesting the South African gov, guilty too.

Separate Representation of Voters Amendment (1951)

Gives coloured people limited votes in South African Gov, furthers the work of representation of natives act that striped the black elite of votes.