TRC Final Report

Volume 1

Chapter 13

Subsection 6

1950 Immorality Amendment Act No 21:

A Extended the 1927 Immorality Act to all black people - including coloureds and Asians (Dugard 1978: 70). Commenced: 12 May 1950

Repealed by s 23 of the Sexual Offences Act No 23 of 1957

1950 Population Registration Act No 30:

A Required people to be identified and registered from birth as belonging to one of four distinct racial groups. This Act was more rigid than earlier race classification laws. Commenced: 7 July 1950

Repealed by s 1 of the Population Registration Act Repeal Act No 114 of 1991

1950 Group Areas Act No 41:

U Provided for areas to be declared for exclusive use of one particular racial group. It became compulsory for people to live in an area designated for their classification group. Commenced: 7 July 1950

Repealed by s 44 of the Group Areas Act No 77 of 1957

1950 Internal Security Act (Suppression of Communism Act) No 44:

S Prohibited certain (listed) organisations and persons from promoting ‘communism’, which was broadly defined. Commenced: 17 July 1950

Repealed by s 33 of the Internal Security and Intimidation Amendment Act 138 of 1991

1951 Suppression of Communism Amendment Act No 50:

S Related to situations where people conspired to overthrow the government, or alternatively to those where people harboured, concealed, failed to report, or assisted those intent on committing so-called acts of terrorism against the state. Commenced: 18 June 1951

Repealed by s 73(1) of the Internal Security Act No 74 of 1982

1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act No 46:

P This attempt by the National Party to remove coloured people from the common voters’ roll was declared invalid by the Supreme Court: A group of coloured voters in Harris v Minister of the Interior 1952(2) SA 428(AD) challenged the Act, which the Appellate Division unanimously declared invalid. In response, the government, via an ‘ingenious and devious’ (Dugard 1978: 31) process of increasing the numbers of Appellate Division judges from five to eleven (where an Act of Parliament was in issue) and increasing the size of the Senate from forty-eight to forty-nine, introduced the 1956 South Africa Act Amendment Act (see below). Commenced: 18 June 1951; revalidated after challenge: 2 March 1956 Repealed by s 4 of the Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 50 of 1968

1951 Black Building Workers Act No 27:

W Prohibited blacks from performing skilled work in the building industry in white urban areas (Dugard 1978: 87).

Repealed by s 11 of Industrial Conciliation Amendment Act No 95 of 1980