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Masters and Servants Acts
This was one of the first racially based policies. It targeted black people as it made poor/inappropriate behavior and strikes criminal offenses for all unskilled employees in South Africa, most of whom were black. -
Immorality Act No 5
This prohibited extra-marital (or outside of marriage) sexual relations between whites and blacks, separating the races farther apart legally and socially. -
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act No 55
This law prohibited marriage between whites and any other race. It created legal ramifications, such as imprisonment or fines, for attempting to foster a romantic or close relationship with the other race, distancing them. -
Immorality Amendment Act No 21
An amendment to the 1950 Immortality Act so that all extra-merital relations between any races (white, black, coloured, Asian) were illegal. -
Population Registration Act No 30
Each citizen of South Africa had to register as one of the four recognized racial groups. -
Black (Native) Laws Amendment Act No 54
All black people more than sixteen years old were required by this law to carry passes. Additionally, they were limited to 72 hours within cities unless they received a permit. They could not be 'idle or undesirable' within cities less they be arrested or deported. -
Black Education Act No 47
This law segregated young black students from white students, allowing for the poor, rudimentary skills that black students were later taught under the Bantu Education system which contributed to the poverty of Bantustans. -
Riotous Assemblies Act No 17
This law gave the Minister of Justice the power to ban certain public gatherings and allowed citizens to be banished. -
General Law Amendment Act No 37
This law allowed the government to detain citizens without lawyers for up to ninety days without a warrant in addition to prohibiting certain organizations that existed since April 7th of 1960. Many were detained and discharged after ninety days to then be detained again. -
Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act (National States Citizenship Act) No 26
This law made the Bantustans (homelands) separate, self-governing territories of which black people were citizens of, not South Africa. This was a transition into the separate countries which the white government aimed toward. -
1979 Education and Training Act No 90
This law began the end of Apartheid as it repealed the Bantu (Black) Education Act No 47 of 1953 and the Bantu Special Education Act No 24 of 1964.
