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Natives Land Act
Africans and colored people were restricted to 7% of arable land in South Africa. This was a very important law because it was the precursor to the native reserves and bantustans that would be the most important policies of grand aparthied. -
The Population Registration Act
The poulation regestration act required that south africans be classified as white, black, or colored. This laid the groundwork for all of the discriminatory policies that would follow. -
Group Areas Act
This was the law that allowed for the forcible removal of blacks from white designated areas. As a result of the passage of theis law 860,000 non-whites wre evicted. -
Bantu Authorities Act
This law established an authority under the south african goverment made up of tribal leaders to govern the areas which would eventually become bantustans. This lays the foundation for the insitutation of Grand aparthied. -
Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act
This allowed the goverment to force blacks out of any land in south africa. This was a more versitile version of the group areas act. -
Seperate registration of voters act
This act meant that blacks no longer could have a viable vote in the goverments elections. This meant they had no repersentation which allowed all later discriminationatory policies ot be passed -
Natives (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act( Pass Book Act)
This was the act that forced non-whites over the age of 16 to carry refrence books. This was related to previous pass laws but much stricter. The law itself repealed previous pass laws in order to require pass books. The Pass Book Act was much stricter than previous pass laws and allowed for much easier enforcment of other discriminatory policies. -
Seperate Ammenties Act
This act leglized the seperation of of public ammenities such as buses and parks this is perhaps the best known part of aparthied and the most evident on a day to day basis -
Black Education Act
This act made the education for blacks legaly diffrent than for whites -
Colored persons communal reserves act
This act allowed for the creation of reserves similar to to bantustans.
