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Black Land Act No 27
The Natives Land Act prohibited blacks from owning or renting land apart from their designated reserves. This contributed to the separation of the population based on color and prevented blacks from gaining commodities that competed with whites. -
Native (Black) Urban Areas Act No 21
This act put local authorities in charge of blacks in their areas. This way, whites could control the influx and out-flux of people in urban areas. This was significant because it extended the power of the white minority over a large black majority, contributing further to the division and separation of races. -
Immortality Act No 5
The Immortality Act of 1927 banned extra-marital affairs between whites and people of color, thereby attempting to completely eliminate any interaction whatsoever between the races and establish racial purity. This is significant because it established further separation socially and mentally. -
Representation of Blacks Act No 12
This act removed blacks from the vote and made white senators their representatives instead. This had clearly oppressive motives, as blacks were now indirectly prohibited from having a say in the South African government. This was meant to send the message that they were no longer truly citizens of the country itself, but only of their reserves and homelands. -
Group Areas Act No 41
The Group Areas Act was perhaps one of the most impactful pieces of Apartheid Legislation. It assigned racial groups to certain urban areas and controlled property ownership and the rights of certain people to live in certain areas. This reserved the worst parts of the cities to nonwhites, keeping them in inferior positions. -
Black Education Act No 47
This law separated educational facilities, and gave inferior educations to blacks. This enforced their duties as workers, not citizens of South Africa, which not only kept them in inferior positions to whites, but also "brainwashed" them into being more convinced about their roles in society. -
Natives (Black) Resettlement Act No 19
This resettlement removed blacks from their townships. This was meant to isolate Johannesburg and remove black settlements from areas surrounding white settlements. This allowed for a "purification" of South Africa, and led to removals like Sophiatown. -
*Bantu (Black) Administration Amendment Act No 42*
This law made it so that any persons (black) being banished could no longer present his or her case to the governor. With the Bantu Administration act, white leaders could control the movement of blacks without explanation or basis. This extension made it so that blacks could not even argue. This was major oppression, and it suppressed any opposition to Apartheid. -
Representation between Republic of South Africa and Self-Governing Territories Act (Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act) No 46
This law officially transformed reserves into Bantustans (independent "countries" for different racial groups). This divided blacks and coloureds from whites, practically initiating the ultimate goal of Apartheid, which was creating states within South Africa that were separated based on race. This worked by abolishing parliamentary representation for blacks, indirectly declaring them citizens of those Bantustans and not of South Africa. -
Black Labour Act No 67
This law prevented blacks from seeking work in cities and from working there unless permission was granted by the state labor bureau. This was significant because it addressed any influx at all of nonwhites into cities.
