TRC Final Report

Volume 1

Chapter 13

Subsection 15

1967 Environmental Planning Act No 88:

W Placed restrictions on the number of blacks who could be employed in the manufacturing industry in the larger industrial areas. Assent gained: 19 June 1967; commencement date not found

IN FORCE: LAND

1968 Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act No 21:

A Invalidated any marriage entered into outside South Africa between a male citizen and a woman of another racial group (Dugard 1978: 69). Commenced: 27 March 1968

Repealed by the Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act No 72 of 1985

1968 South African Indian Council Act No 31:

P Established the Council consisting of twenty-five members appointed by the Minister of Indian Affairs. The number was increased to thirty members, of which fifteen were appointed by the Minister and fifteen indirectly through electoral colleges in the provinces (Dugard 1978: 100). Unlike the Coloured Persons Representative Council, the South African Indian Council was not granted legislative powers. Commenced: 26 March 1968

Repealed by s 23 of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act No 110 of 1983

1968 Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 50:

P The Coloured Persons Representative Council was formed with forty elected members and twenty nominated members. It had legislative powers to make laws affecting coloureds on finance, local government, education, community welfare and pensions, rural settlements and agriculture. No bill could be introduced without the approval of the Minister of Coloured Relations, nor could a bill be passed without the approval of the white Cabinet (Dugard 1978: 98). Assent gained: 27 March 1968; commencement date not found

Repealed by s 101(1) of the Republic of South Africa Constitution Act No 110 of 1983

1968 Prohibition of Political Interference Act No 51:

P Prohibited non-racial political parties (ss 1 & 2) and foreign financing of political parties (s 3). The Act was later renamed the ‘Prohibition of Foreign Financing of Political Parties Act’ by the 1985 Constitutional Affairs Amendment Act.

Sections 1 and 2 relating to the ban on non-racial political parties repealed by the same Act (No 104) of 1985. Section 3 repealed by Abolition of Restrictions on Free Political Activity Act No 206 of 1993

1968 Dangerous Weapons Act No 71:

S Prohibited the possession of weapons which could cause bodily injury if used in an assault. The Minister of Justice could prohibit the possession or manufacture or supply of such objects. Commenced: 3 July 1968

IN FORCE (as amended by the Dangerous Weapons Amendment Act No 156 of 1993): ARMS AND AMMUNITION