Apartheid legislation- 1948- 94

I PRE 1948

I 1946- MINERS STRIKE, six miners killed and 400 injured under Smut’s government, as a result of ignoring the hostility to the pass laws

I 1948 ELECTION: NP won 79 seats, UP won 71

I 1949- PROHIBITION OF MIXED MARRIAGES ACT

I 1950 IMMORALITY ACT: sexual relations between different races illegal

GROUP AREAS ACT: authorized governments to displace occupants of an area for one ethnic group.

Responsible for the forcible eviction of 3.5 million African people between 1951-86.

I 1951 BANTU AUTHORITIES ACT: Home areas of African people were ‘tribal reserves’, led by Tribal leaders appointed by the government

I 1952 NATIVE LAWS AMENDMENT ACT: standardized the use of passes with new reference books

I 1953 BANTU EDUCATION ACT: Removed control over African education, ended state subsidies for mission schools forcing most to close.

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I 1959 BANTU SELF-GOVERNMENT ACT: made homelands ‘independent’, removed them officially from South African statistics

I EXTENSION OF UNIVERSITIES ACT: NP opened segregated colleges.

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