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Apartheid Legislation In South Africa

Apartheid in South Africa
Events and projects
1948 general election Coloured vote constitutional crisis Treason Trial Sharpeville massacre Rivonia Trial Soweto uprising Church Street bombing Khotso House bombing Cape Town peace march CODESA Saint James Church massacre Shell House massacre
Organisations
ANC APLA IFP AWB Black Sash CCB Conservative Party ECC PP RP PFP HNP MK PAC UDF Broederbond National Party COSATU SACC SADF SAIC SAP SACP Umkhonto we Sizwe State Security Council
People
P. W. Botha Mangosuthu Buthelezi Steve Biko Yusuf Dadoo Sheena Duncan F. W. de Klerk Eugene de Kock Ruth First Bram Fischer Chris Hani John Frederick Harris Barbara Hogan Trevor Huddleston Helen Joseph Ronnie Kasrils Ahmed Kathrada Jimmy Kruger Moses Mabhida Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Mac Maharaj D. F. Malan Nelson Mandela Kaiser Matanzima Govan Mbeki Thabo Mbeki Robert McBride Billy Nair Hastings Ndlovu Alan Paton Hector Pieterson Harry Schwarz Walter Sisulu JG Strijdom Joe Slovo Helen Suzman Oliver Tambo Eugène Terre'Blanche Andries Treurnicht Desmond Tutu H. F. Verwoerd B. J. Vorster
Places
Bantustan District Six Robben Island Sophiatown South-West Africa Soweto Sun City Vlakplaas
Related topics
Cape Qualified Franchise Afrikaner nationalism Apartheid legislation Freedom Charter Sullivan Principles Kairos Document Disinvestment campaign South African Police Apartheid in popular culture

The Apartheid Legislation in South Africa was a series of different laws and acts which were to help the apartheid-government to enforce the segregation of different races and cement the power and the dominance by the Whites, of substantially European descent, over the other race groups. Starting in 1948, the Nationalist Government in South Africa enacted laws to define and enforce segregation. With the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948, racial discrimination was institutionalised. According to economist Walter E. Williams, apartheid "maintained white power by denying political and economic liberty to black South Africans." The effect of the legislation was invariably favourable to the whites and detrimental to the non-white racial groups namely the Coloureds, Indians and Blacks.

What makes South Africa's apartheid era different from segregation in other countries is the systematic way in which the National Party, which came into power in 1948, formalized the Apartheid rules through the law.

Read more about Apartheid Legislation In South Africa: Publication of Legislation, Segregationist Legislation Before Apartheid

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