Legislation
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ACT TO Amend the laws relating to occupation and acquisition of land in the Province of the Transvaal by Asiatics and Coloured persons and to provide for matters incidental thereto. |
BE IT ENACTED by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows-:
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ACT to Amend the Transvaal Land Tenure Act, 1932 |
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Copy ot the Class Areas Bill |
From the above statistical statements it will be seen that while the European population of Natal has increased since 1911 to 40% the Asiatic population has only increased by 0.5%..... |
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Report of the Indian Enquiry Commission |
We, the Commissioners appointed by Your Excellency to hold a public judicial Enquiry into the disturbances in connection with the recent strike of Indians in Natal, the causes and circumstances which led to that strike and to those disturbances, the amount of force used in the suppression of the |
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Correspondence relating to the Immigrants Regulations Act and other matters Affecting Asiatics in South Africa |
This mass meeting of the Indian community, convened under the auspices of the Natal Indian Congress, hereby place on record its disapprobation of the Immigrants Regulation Act recently confirmed by His Excellency the Governor-General of the Union, and since the said Act deprives the domiciled Ind |
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Chronological list of anti Indian legislation in South Africa. |
Law 3 of 1885, Transvaal: Prohibition on taking up residence except in segregated areas. Denial of all civic rights, a) Law passed to amend Act 3 of 1885 |
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Government Gazette |
Government Gazette Vol CXLIV NO. 3671 |
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THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA - Government Gazette |
By HIS EXCELLENCY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GIDEON BRAND V AN ZYL, A MEMBER OF HIS MAJESTY'S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL, GOVERNOR·GENERAL OF THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. |
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An Explanation of the Group Areas Act, 1950 |
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SUMMARY OF THE GROUP AREAS ACT, 1950 |
The Group Areas Act is largely based on the principles of the existing legislation, but goes beyond those principles in some respects. Firstly, it extends the principle of exclusive racial areas so as to provide for exclusively European areas. |
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SUMMARY OF THE GROUP AREAS ACT, 1950 |
For the past hundred years there has been in force in South Africa legislation deferentially affecting the various racial groups now comprised within the Union of South Africa. |
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Natives (Prohibition of Interdicts) Act, Act No 64 of 1956 |
The Act was to prohibit the granting of interdicts or other dilatory orders of court having the effect of staying or suspending the removal or ejectment of natives in certain cases, and to provide for other incidental matters |
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Immorality Act, Act No 23 of 1957 |
The Act was to consolidate and amend the laws relating to brothels and unlawful carnal intercouse and other acts in relation thereto |
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Bantu Investment Corporation Act, Act No 34 of 1959 |
The Act was to constitute a Corporation the object of which is to promote and encourage industrial and other undertakings and to act as a development, financial and investment institution among Bantu persons in the Bantu areas, and to provide for other incidental matters |
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Extension of University Education Act, Act No 45 of 1959 |
The Act was to provide for the establishment, maintenance, management and control of unoiversity colleges for non-white persons; for the admission of students to and their instruction at university colleges; for the limitation of the admnission of non-white students to certain university institut |
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Promotion of Bantu Self-governing Act, Act No 46 of 1959 |
The Act was to provide for the gradual development of self-governing Bantu national units and for direct consultation between the Government of the Union and the said national units in regard to matters affecting the interests of such national units; to amend the Native Administration Act, 1927, |
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Unlawful Organizations Act, Act No 34 of 1960 |
The Act was to empower the Governor-General, with a view to the safety of the public or the maintenance of public order, by proclamation in the Gazette to declare the Pan Africanist Congress and the African National Congress and certain other organizations to be unlawful organizations, to amend t |
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Coloured Persons Communal Reserves Act, Act No 3 of 1961 |
The Act was to apply the Mission Stations and Communal Reserves Act 1909, of the Cape of Good Hope, to coloured persons settlement areas within the meaning of the Coloured Persons Settlement Areas (Cape) Act, 1930, to repeal the latter Act and to provide for matters incidental thereto. |
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Urban Bantu Councils Act, Act No 79 of 1961 |
The Act was to provide for the establishment of urban Bantu councils, the conferring on certain Bantu of civil and criminal jurisdiction in urban areas, the establishment of community guards in certain areas, and matters incidental thereto, and to amend the Natives (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act |
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Births, Marriages and Deaths Registration Act, Act No 81 of 1963 |
Act to consolidate the laws relating to the registration of births, marriages and deaths. |