TRC Final Report

Volume 1

Chapter 13

Subsection 24

1986 Internal Security Amendment Act No 66:

S Created a new section 50(a) of the 1982 Internal Security Act to allow for continued detention for a period of 180 days on the authorisation of a policeman at or above the rank of lieutenant colonel, if he was of the opinion that such detention would con tribute to the ‘termination, combating or prevention of public disturbance, disorder, riot or public violence at any place within the Republic’.

Commenced: 26 August 1986

Repealed by s 33 of the Internal Security and Intimidation Amendment Act No 138 of 1991

1986 Abolition of Influx Control Act No 68:

L Amended the 1927 Black Administration Act in order to repeal sections relating to the removal of black communities as well as individual black persons (RRS 1986: 339).

Commenced: 1 July 1986

IN FORCE: LOCAL GOVERNMENT

1986 Abolition of Influx Control Act No 68:

U Provided for the partial or entire repeal of thirty-four laws (RRS 1986: 339) relating to influx control in respect of blacks, the removal of blacks from land they occupied and the control of squatting.

Commenced: 1 July 1986

1986 Identification Act No 72:

U Repealed the 1952 Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act and large portions of the 1950 Population Registration Act (RRS 1986: 338). Identity numbers would no longer reflect a person’s race group in terms of the 1950 Population

Registration Act or any other law (RRS 1986: 7).

Commenced: 1 July 1986

IN FORCE (as amended by the Identification Amendment Act No 47 of 1995: CENSUS AND STATISTICS

1986 Restoration of South African Citizenship Act No 73:

P Granted South African citizenship to TBVC citizens who were born in South Africa prior to their homeland’s independence or who resided in South Africa permanently. TBVC citizens who remained in South Africa temporarily while seeking employment, working, studying or visiting and whose permanent home was one of the TBVC areas remained ‘aliens’ (RRS 1986: 94-5). Citizenship was restored to about 1 751 400 TBVC citizens, but eight to nine million still remained subject to the provisions of the 1937 Aliens Act. There was, however, according to Budlender (1989: 4), no official attempt to enforce this new migrant labour system.

Commenced: 1 July 1985

Repealed by s 7 of the Restoration and Extension of South African Citizenship Act No 196 of 1993