Additional Apartheid Laws by Jessica Thoms https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws Year 12 should add one each to this padlet en-us 2017-05-12 00:22:12 UTC 2025-11-27 05:44:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Extension of University Education Act, Act 45 of 1959 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172499447
Put an end to black students attending white universities (mainly the universities of Cape Town and Witwatersrand). Created separate tertiary institutions for whites, Coloured, blacks, and Asians.

Lachlan

]]> 2017-05-18 07:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172499447 Official Secrets Act 1956 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172500866 Established a Board of Censors that ruled on the suspension or banning of media such as books, television, and other material. Under this Act, Black Beauty was banned solely for the title.
Eleanor

]]> 2017-05-18 07:10:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172500866 Bantu Investment Corporation Act 1959 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172505122 Allowed the South African government to capitalise on financial, commercial and industrial entrepreneurs operating in Bantustan (black) segregated areas. 

Scott]]> 2017-05-18 07:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172505122 1951- Native Building Workers ACT No 27 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172527042
Denied Africans from performing skilled labour on buildings in urban areas. The only exception from this being in segregated townships. This Act worked with the Native Building Workers Act 1951 in regards to housing location, black employment and tax. 
Kate

]]> 2017-05-18 09:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172527042 South Africa Amendment Act No 9 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172530708   This act built upon the Separate Representation of Voters Acts of 1951 and 1956. However, it was this act that officially removed people classified as coloured from the common electoral roles. This greatly limited any political power that they had.

Samantha ]]> 2017-05-18 09:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172530708 1953 Native Labour Settlement of Disputes Act no 48 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172584877 Introduced a formal system of racially segregated trade unions, and made strikes by Africans "illegal in all circumstance". Trade unions were not banned, but they also weren't legally recognised. The act took away working rights for Africans.
Sarah]]> 2017-05-18 14:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172584877 1973 - Gatherings & Demonstrations Act No. 52 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172699164 Prohibited demonstrations and open-air gatherings of any number of persons within the precincts of Parliment.
Alex]]> 2017-05-18 23:14:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172699164 1963 - Publications & Entertainments Act No. 26 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172699264 Established the Publications Control Board that was effectively used to control and censor media. It decided to what extent various mediums of publication (objects, films, public entertainments - excluding newspapers) were compatible 'with certain standards of indecency and obscenity'. However, it was abolished and superseded by the Directorate of Publications in the mid- 1970s. ]]> 2017-05-18 23:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172699264 1957 - Immorality Act No 23 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172699576 Extension of the Immorality Act of 1927, which makes it an offence for a white person to have intercourse with a black person, or to solicit these kind of acts. The maximum penalty of this crime was seven years imprisonment.

Matt]]> 2017-05-18 23:19:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172699576 hehe xd https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172699976 2017-05-18 23:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172699976 The Criminal Law Amendment Act 1953 (No. 8) https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172700943 Was passed in response to the Defiance Campaign of 1952, it allowed the courts to impose severe penalties to those found guilty of committing acts of civil disobedience by breaking apartheid laws. Together with the Public Safety Act of that same year, they sought to end anti-apartheid protesting. It included the clause: “Any person who in any way whatsoever advises, encourages, incites, commands, aids or procures any other person … or uses language calculated to cause any other person to commit an offence by way of protest against the law … shall be guilty of an offence” (quoted by Lapping 1986: 169)

Mae]]> 2017-05-18 23:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172700943 1955 Criminal Procedure and Evidence Amendement Act https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172701204 This made whipping compulsory punishment for theft of or from motor vehicles and receiving stolen property.

Isaac]]> 2017-05-18 23:41:12 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172701204 1951- Suppression of Communism Amendment Act https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172701314 Banned communism within South Africa but defined it so broadly it could encompass any governmental opposition and therefore opposition of apartheid.  

Alice]]> 2017-05-18 23:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172701314 1967 - Terrorism Act https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172701564 Forbade any form of military recruitment or act of terrorism. Terrorism in Apartheid was loosely defined as any attempt at endangering law. Those found guilty could be held in detention until Commissioner of Police was 'satisfied'.]]> 2017-05-18 23:46:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172701564 1960 Unlawful Organisations Act No 24 or 34 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172701671 Introduced the ability to ban the ANC and PAC



]]> 2017-05-18 23:47:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172701671 The Separate Repinresentation of Voters Act, Act 46 of 1951 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172701930 Established by the apartheid government in order to enforce racial segregation. It was also a deliberate process to remove non-white people from the voters roll. 

Shreya]]> 2017-05-18 23:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172701930 Customs Act No 55 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172702218 Imported publications might be prohibited by the customs authorities ... where they were considered to be 'indecent or obscene or on any ground whatsoever objectionable' .]]> 2017-05-18 23:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172702218 Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954This Act granted powers to the government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg. In essence this Act aimed to effect the removal of Africans from Sophiatown to Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg. https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172704361 Xavier]]> 2017-05-19 00:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172704361 Internal Security Act no 78 - 1982 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172705384 Gave the apartheid government  powers to ban or restrict organizations, publications, people and public gatherings, and to detain people without trial.
The last remaining section was repealed in 2005.  

Jade]]> 2017-05-19 00:31:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/172705384 1959 - The Extension of University Education Act https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/566319475  introduced to extend apartheid to the territories of education. It brought to an end the practice of allowing a small number of universities, most notably the universities of Cape Town and Witwatersrand, To register students of all races on their academic courses.  all universities will now be required to admit students from just a single racial group or in the case of African universities a single tribe. 

Chloe
]]> 2020-05-12 00:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/566319475 1953 Criminal Law Amendment Act No 8 41203811 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/570073127 In 1953 the law was passed after the Defiance Campaign in 1952 which was instigated by the ANC and South African Indian Congress. The law state that "Any person who in any way whatsoever advises, encourages, incites, commands, aids or procures any other person ... or uses language calculated to cause any other person to commit an offence by way of protest against the law... shall be guilty of an offence" . It intended to prevent anti-segregation parties from organizing any defiant campaigns.]]> 2020-05-13 13:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/570073127 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/571396477 2020-05-13 23:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/571396477 1959 Prisons Act No 8 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/571471824 This "made the unauthorised reporting of conditions in prisons illegal"
Angela]]> 2020-05-14 00:35:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/571471824 The Customs and Excise Act - 1955 https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/571539903 It allowed the government to establish a Board of Censors that could rule on the restriction or banning of any media publication, book, film or other material, whether produced in South Africa or imported.

Marit]]> 2020-05-14 01:41:40 UTC https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/571539903 1959 Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act https://padlet.com/jessica_thoms1/apartheid_laws/wish/571664281
  • Classified black people into eight ethnic groups
  • Each group had a Commissioner-General tasked to develop a homeland for each
  • Allowed these homelands to govern themselves independently, (nominally), without white intervention
  • Cornerstone of “grand apartheid”

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