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Legislation for Apartheid

Your task is to research in groups of three one of the following pieces of legislation: Population Registration Act Group Areas Act Bantu Administration Act Separate Amenities Act Pass Laws Mixed Marriages Act Bantu Education Act

Find out the following information (where relevant) to the law allocated to you:

1. What is the official name of the act? 2. What is it commonly called? 3. What are the major clauses (parts) of the law? 4. What was the impact of this law on each of the four groups of society? 5. How was the law enforced? 6. What penalties are involved? 7. Was there any opposition or resistance to this law? Be specific You will then need to produce an A4 fact sheet on your allocated law and briefly present your findings to the class.

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