Imvubu Newsletter
Apartheid Legislation
Race has shaped South Africa’s very core. The system of racial segregation assigned superior and inferior statuses according to a person’s skin colour. It was enforced by a large body of legislation.
Population Registration
• Population Registration Act, 1950
• The Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, 1953
Job Reservation and Economic Apartheid
• Masters and Servants Act, 1856
• Mines and Works Act, 1911
• Class Areas Act, 1923
• Minimum Wages Act, 1925
• Colour Bar Act, 1926
• Liquor Act, 1927
• Old Age Pension Act, 1927
• Asiatic Immigration Amendment Act, 1931
• Native Service Contracts Act,1932
• Pegging Act, 1943
• Pensions Laws Amendment Act, 1944
• Native Building Workers Act, 1951
• Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act, 1953
• Black Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Amendment Act, 1955
• Industrial Conciliation Act, 1956
• The Natives Taxation and Development Act, 1958
• Bantu Investment Corporation Act, 1959
• Environmental Planning Act, 1967
• Black Labour Relations Regulation Amendment Act 70 of 1973
Segregation in Education
• Bantu Education Act, 1953
• Extension of University Education Act, 1959
• Coloured Persons Education Act, 1963
• Extension of University Education Act no. 45 of 1959
• Indians Education Act, 1965
• Education Act, 1967
• Education and Training Act no. 9 of 1979
Sexual Apartheid
• Immorality Act, 1927
• Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949
• Immorality Amendment Act, 1950
Land Tenure and Geographic Segregation
• The Natives Land Act, 1913
• Riotous Assemblies (Amendment) Act, 1930
• Native Trust and Land Act, 1936
• Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act, 1946
• Group Areas Act, 1950 (re-enacted in 1957 and 1966)
• Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act, 1951
• Natives Laws Amendment Act, 1952
• Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, 1953
• Group Areas Development Act, 1955
• Coloured Persons Communal Reserves Act, 1961
• Rural Coloured Areas Act, 1963
• Preservation of Coloured Areas Act, Act no. 31 of 1961
• Bantu Homelands Citizens Act of 1970
• Aliens Control Act, 1973
Pass Laws and Influx Control
• Natives (Urban Areas) Act, 1923
• Natives (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act, 1945
• Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act, 1951
• Native Laws Amendment Act, 1952
• Natives (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act, 1952
• Natives Resettlement Act, 1954
• Natives (Prohibition of Interdicts) Act, 1956
• Urban Bantu Councils Act, 1961
• Black Local Authorities Act, 1982
Political Representation
• South Africa Act 1909
• Native Affairs Act, 1920
• Local Government Act, 1926
• Women’s Enfranchisement Act, 1930
• Representation of Natives Act, 1936
• Electoral Laws Amendment Act of 1940
• Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act, 1946
• Suppression of Communism Act, Act no. 44 of 1950
• Separate Representation of Voters Act, 1951
• Public Safety Act of 1953
• Promotion of Bantu Self-government Act, 1959
• Unlawful Organisations Act, 1960
• Urban Bantu Councils, 1961
• Prohibition of Political Interference Act, 1968
• Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act, 1968
• Coloured Persons Representative Council Amendment Act, 1968
• Prohibition of Political Interference Act, 1968
• Republic of South Africa Constitution Act, 1983
Separate Development and Bantustans
• Native Administration Act, 1927
• The Development Trust and Land Act, 1936
• Native Administration Amendment Act, 1937
• Factories, Machinery and Building Works Act of 1941
• Bantu Authorities Act, 1951
• Promotion of Bantu Self-government Act, 1959
• Bantu Investment Corporation Act, 1959
• Urban Blacks Council Act, 1961
• Transkei Constitution Act no. 48 of 1963
• Bantu Homelands Development Corporations Act, 1965
• Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act, 1970
• Bantu Homelands Constitution Act, 1971
• Status of Ciskei Act, 1981
Banning, Detention without Trial and State Security
• Suppression of Communism Act, 1950
• Public Safety Act, 1953
• Riotous Assemblies Act, 1956
• Unlawful Organizations Act, 1960
• Indemnity Act, 1961
• General Law Amendment Act, 1963
• Terrorism Act, 1967
• Security Intelligence and State Security Council Act no. 64 of 1972
• Indemnity Act, 1977
• Internal Security Act, 1982