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Black (Native) Administration Act No. 38
The minister was allowed forcibly move any tribe, group of blacks, or black individuals to a different desired region within the Republic of South Africa without any prior notice to those concerned. This gave way to the massive forced removals of blacks from urban areas that were soon to come. -
Representation of Blacks Act No. 12
This act removed all blacks in the Cape from the common role, placing them instead on a separate role that was unequally represented and recorded. They were collectively represented by four white senators in congress as opposed to black officials that they would have been able to elect themselves. This further relinquished the political rights of blacks and laid the foundations for a decrease in black political activism. -
Development Trust and Land Act No. 18
This act allocated 13.6% of South Africa's land to blacks. It also ordered the Department of Bantu Administration and Development to eliminate "black spots" of land in which black communities existed amidst the white communities that surrounded them, moving the blacks to the regions reserved for them. This forced blacks out of urban areas and forced them to infertile regions in which economic opportunity was virtually nonexistent. -
Native (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act No. 25
This act allowed for black males deemed guilty of committing various legal offenses or leading immoral lives were to be removed from the urban areas in which they resided. This decreased the influx of blacks in the cities. -
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act No. 55
This act prohibited the marriage of individuals of different races. It also legally forced interracial couples to split up. This perpetuated the invasive role that the government had already assumed, causing neighbors to turn on each other and report interracial relationships being conducted in secret. -
Population Registration Act No. 30
This act required people to be registered from birth as belonging to one of the four racial group options that the South African Apartheid government had devised. This led to the establishment of pass laws based on race, as well as the abuse of various racial groups by police officers when accused of being a different race than the one listed on their passes. -
Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act No. 52
This act ordered the prohibition of unlawful entry of a building. It granted magistrates the power and authority to demolish a squatter's home and relocate them if deemed necessary. This intensified discrimination and gave way to more stringent pass laws, as blacks had to receive formal permission in order to enter certain buildings. -
Bantu Authorities Act No. 68
This act granted Bantustan leaders the right to control their own functions and run their own communities. It gave them a false sense of empowerment as they were allowed to control the negligible amount of valueless land that they were given. It granted blacks rights only within their designated homelands. -
Reservation of Separate Amenities Act No. 49
This act reserved certain facilities and amenities for certain racial groups. It also segregated public transportation. This separated blacks and whites even more so than they already were, perpetuating sentiments of white supremacy and superiority. -
Black Education Act No. 47
This act segregated education and schooling for blacks and whites. It formed the basis for the poor, inherently inferior education black South Africans were to receive.
