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Special Report Transcript Episode 16, Section 2, Time 06:38

When bright young Dutch immigrant Hendrik Verwoerd took over the leadership of the National Party he turned apartheid into an ideology interwoven with a strict Calvinist religion. His laws required all South Africans to be classified according to race and to live in racially segregated areas.

Notes: Film footage: Verwoerd; 1950 Group Areas Act

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1950 Immorality Amendment Act No 21:A Extended the 1927 Immorality Act to all black people - including coloureds and Asians (Dugard 1978: 70). Commenced: 12 May 1950Repealed by s 23 of the Sexual Offences Act No 23 of 1957 1950 Population Registration Act No 30: A Required people to be ...
1950 Group Areas Act 30 In terms of the Group Areas Act, the entire country was demarcated into zones for exclusive occupation by designated racial groups. Implemented from 1954, the result was mass population transfers involving the uprooting of (almost exclusively) black citizens from their ...
 
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