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This law in 1913 prohibited blacks from being able to own or rent any land outside of certain areas. The areas of land where they were able to own land only consisted of 7% of South African land.
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Whites and blacks were no longer allowed to have extra-martial affairs. It was part of petty apartheid because it only effected a very small part of the population, yet the government felt the need to create legislation against it.
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This law said that any male who was leading an idle life could be removed from an urban area. It only applied to black adult males.
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This law was more strict than previous racial laws. Every individual had to be identified and registered as either white, black, colored, or asiatic.
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This law prohibited all colored and blacks from working skilled jobs in the building industry in urban areas that were white areas.
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This act specified that all black people over the age of 16 had to carry passes. Unless they had permission, no black was allowed to stay in a white urban area for over 72 hours. It permitted authorities to send black to their "homeland" if they were arrested.
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This law allowed public amenities and facilities such as parks, beaches, bathrooms, water fountains, etc, to be seperated racially.
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This act formally segregated not only blacks and whites, but blacks and coloreds. It effectively created the Bantu educational system.
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This act made it possible to begin removing coloreds from the voting process. Blacks and coloreds began to lose the right to vote.
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This law permitted the tribal reserves to become actual Bantustans. Once they became Bantustans, they could self-govern. It also removed parliamentary representation of Blacks in the South-African government. Each tribal group was assigned a white Commissioner-General who oversaw the process of transitioning from a reservation to a self-governing state.
