TRC Final Report

Volume 1

Chapter 13

Subsection 26

1990 Discriminatory Legislation Regarding Public Amenities Repeal Act No 100:

A Repealed the 1953 Reservation of Separate Amenities Act as well as various other Acts ‘...so as to abolish the distinction made therein between persons belonging to different races or population groups’. Commenced: 15 October 1990

IN FORCE: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

1990 2 February: ANC, SACP and PAC unbanned; Emergency restrictions on 33 organisations and 225 listed people lifted 11 February: Mandela released

1990 Indemnity Act No 35:

S Granted temporary or permanent indemnity against prosecutions for exiles returning to South Africa. Commenced: 18 May 1990

Repealed by s 48 of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act No 34 of 1995

1990 8 June: Countrywide state of emergency lifted; partial emergency declared in Natal. Wide-ranging powers of arrest and detention remain in place.

1990 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953

1990 18 October: Natal state of emergency lifted

1991 January: 205 white government schools admit black children for the first time (RRS 1991/2: xxxiii)

1991 June: The quota system for universities repealed (RRS 1991/92: 184)

1991 Black Communities Development Amendment Act No 77:

U Amended the 1984 Black Communities Amendment Act to further regulate the granting and transfer of leasehold and the conversion of leasehold into ownership. Commenced: 29 May 1991

Repealed by s 72 of the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act No 108 of 1991

1991 Aliens Control Act No 96:

U, P Replaced all previous legislation regarding foreigners entering, leaving or being resident in the country. Commenced: 1 October 1991

IN FORCE: ALIEN AND CITIZEN

1991 Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act No 108:

L, U Provided for the repeal of the 1913 Black Land Act, the 1936 Development Trust and Land Act, the 1966 Group Areas Act and the 1984 Black Communities Development Act. ‘A total of 189 sections and acts that had supported racial discrimination in respect of land legislation regarding rural areas under the administration of the House of Representatives and the non-independent homelands were also repealed by the Act’ (RRS 1991/1992: 385; see also 339-42). The promulgation of this Act ‘did not affect the legal status of the non-independent homelands, their geographical definitions or their administrative structures’ (RRS 1991/92: 385).

Promulgated: 28 June 1991

Commenced: 30 June 1991, except s 72: 1 September 1991, s 23: 1 April 1992, ss 4(1), 14(1), 17(1), 18(1), 19(1), 27(1), 35(1), 41(1), 43(1), 46(1): to be proclaimed IN FORCE: LAND (as amended by the Housing Amendment Act No 6 of 1996: HOUSING)

1991 Population Registration Act Repeal Act No 114:

A Repealed the 1950 Population Registration Act. The population register as compiled by the 1986 Identification Act was to remain in effect until the 1983 Republic of South Africa Constitution Act was repealed.

Commenced: 28 June 1991

IN FORCE: CENSUS AND STATISTICS