Apartheid

  • Mines and Works Act No. 12

    Mines and Works Act No. 12
    Gave certificates to skilled mining workers only. This allowed for more whites to get the skilled positions
  • Black Land Act No. 27

    Black Land Act No. 27
    Made it illegal for blacks to live in certain areas outside of their designated living zone. They were given 7% of the land of South Africa.
  • Immorality Act No. 5

    Immorality Act No. 5
    Made it illegal for blacks and whites to have intercourse.
  • Representation of Blacks Act No. 12

    Representation of Blacks Act No. 12
    Took blacks off of the voter roll in the cape and placed them on their own rolls. This made it so that they had no influence on the local government election.
  • Industrial Conciliation Further Amendment Act No 61

    Industrial Conciliation Further Amendment Act No 61
    It prohibited strikes for any reason unconnected to the employee/employeer relationship. Made it harder for blacks to get raises or get better working conditions; purpose of a strike was subjunctive to the government.
  • Environmental Planning Act No: 88

    Environmental Planning Act No: 88
    This law placed a restriction on the number of blacks that could live within a certain area of a city center. It made it more difficult for Blacks to get jobs in the cities and if they did, they had to travel a long distance to get to their job.
  • Bantu Homelands and Citizenship Act No. 26

    Bantu Homelands and Citizenship Act No. 26
    Required all blacks to become a part of their own self-government. This would make them legal-aliens and no longer citizens of the Unified South Africa.
  • Extension of University Education Amendment Act no. 29

    Extension of University Education Amendment Act no. 29
    Once people entered University, they could not change their courses without consent of the Minister. This made it so that blacks could not seek a more specialized education.
  • Black Affairs Administration Act No. 45

    Black Affairs Administration Act No. 45
    This created a black self-government system in the black communities of South Africa. This act slowly is creating separate racial states.
  • Black Laws Amendment Act No. 7

    Black Laws Amendment Act No. 7
    This act sought to speed up the shrinking of the Bantu homelands. If the law passed before Bantus were removed, the Bantus were not able to appeal it.