Apartheid Law in South Africa
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Have a little read: ... Apartheid Law After the Second World War, the National Party came to power in 1948 on a ticket of racial segregation and support for poor Afrikaners. A large number of laws were passed to establish the apartheid structure of government. The three most important blocks of legislation were: * The Race Classification Act. Every citizen suspected of not being European was classified according to race. * The Mixed Marriages Act. It prohibited marriage between people of different races. * The Group Areas Act. It forced people of certain races into living in designated areas. THE STRANGE WORLD OF RACIAL CLASSIFICATION The apartheid regime had a number of pseudo scientific tests for classifying people as belonging to one of four main groups: White, Black, Indian, Coloured (mixed race). One of these tests involved putting a comb through hair - if it got stuck, that meant the person being tested was identified as African. Every year, people were reclassified
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