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key apartheid laws: nature & characteristics of discrimination

1949 Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act

1950 Immorality Act

1950 Population Registration Act

1950 Group Areas Act

1951 Bantu Authorities Act

1952 Pass Laws Act

1952 Native Laws Amendment Act

1953 Bantu Education Act

1953 Reservation of Separate Amenities Act

1954 Natives Resettlement Act

1955 Group Areas Development Act

1955 Western Areas Removal Scheme

1959 Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act

1959 University Education Act

Petty Apartheid: segregation in the routine of daily life - in restaurants, buses, swimming pools, and other public facilities

  • NP leaders: Malan, Strijdom

  • purpose: to create complete economic, social, and political white domination

  • examples of petty apartheid legislation:

Grand Apartheid: a unique system of racially biased laws that limit the personal freedom of all South African blacks and prohibit them from any significant political voice in their Government

  • NP leaders: Verwoerd

  • purpose: complete physical separation and separate development of different races in South Africa

  • grand apartheid legislation:

Repressive Laws:

Censorship Laws:

red: Division and "classification"; segregation of populations and amenities;

yellow: creation of townships/ forced removals, bantustan systems & impacts on individuals

purple: segregation of education acts

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key apartheid laws: nature & characteristics of discrimination

1949 Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act

1950 Immorality Act

1950 Population Registration Act

1950 Group Areas Act

1951 Bantu Authorities Act

1952 Pass Laws Act

1952 Native Laws Amendment Act

1953 Bantu Education Act

1953 Reservation of Separate Amenities Act

1954 Natives Resettlement Act

1955 Group Areas Development Act

1955 Western Areas Removal Scheme

1959 Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act

1959 University Education Act

Petty Apartheid: segregation in the routine of daily life - in restaurants, buses, swimming pools, and other public facilities

  • NP leaders: Malan, Strijdom

  • purpose: to create complete economic, social, and political white domination

  • examples of petty apartheid legislation:

Grand Apartheid: a unique system of racially biased laws that limit the personal freedom of all South African blacks and prohibit them from any significant political voice in their Government

  • NP leaders: Verwoerd

  • purpose: complete physical separation and separate development of different races in South Africa

  • grand apartheid legislation:

Repressive Laws:

Censorship Laws:

red: Division and "classification"; segregation of populations and amenities;

yellow: creation of townships/ forced removals, bantustan systems & impacts on individuals

purple: segregation of education acts