Group Areas Act - Wikipedia Group Areas Act Group Areas Act, 1950 Act to provide for the establishment of group areas, for the control of the acquisition of immovable property and the occupation of land and premises, and for matters incidental thereto. Citation Act No. 41 of 1950 Enacted by Parliament of South Africa Date passed 7 July 1950 Date of Royal Assent 24 June 1950 Date commenced 30 March 1951 ( Cape, Transvaal, Natal ) 31 October 1952 ( O.F.S. ) Date repealed 1 November 1957 Administered by Minister of the Interior Repealing legislation Group Areas Act, 1957 Status : Repealed Group Areas Act, 1957 Act to consolidate the law relating to the establishment of group areas, the control of the acquisition of immovable property and the occupation of land and premises and matters incidental thereto. Citation Act No. 77 of 1957 Enacted by Parliament of South Africa Date of Royal Assent 24 June 1957 Date commenced 1 November 1957 Date repealed 26 October 1966 Administered by Minister of the Interior Repealing legislation Group Areas Act, 1966 Status : Repealed Group Areas Act, 1966 Act to consolidate the law relating to the establishment of group areas, the control of the acquisition of immovable property and the occupation of land and premises, and matters incidental thereto. Citation Act No. 36 of 1966 Enacted by Parliament of South Africa Date assented to 5 October 1966 Date commenced 26 October 1966 Date repealed 30 June 1991 Administered by Minister of Planning Repealing legislation Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act, 1991 Status : Repealed Group Areas Act was the title of three acts of the Parliament of South Africa enacted under the apartheid government of South Africa. The acts assigned racial groups to different residential and business sections in urban areas in a system of urban apartheid. An effect of the law was to exclude non-Whites from living in areas which were restricted to Whites ( e.g., Sea Point, Lansdowne, Cape Town, Claremont ). It caused many non-Whites to have to commute large distances from their homes in order to be able to work. The law led to non-Whites being forcibly removed for living in the `` wrong '' areas. The non-white majority were given much smaller areas ( e.g., Tongaat, Grassy Park ) to live in than the white minority who owned most of the country. Pass Laws required that non-Whites carry pass books, and later ' reference books ' ( similar to passports ) to enter the ' white ' parts of the country. The first Group Areas Act, the Group Areas Act, 1950 was promulgated on 7 July 1950, and it was implemented over a period of several years. It was amended by Parliament in 1952, 1955 ( twice ), 1956 and 1957. Later in 1957 it was repealed and re-enacted in consolidated form as the Group Areas Act, 1957, which was amended in 1961, 1962, and 1965. In 1966 this version was in turn repealed and re-enacted as the Group Areas Act, 1966, which was subsequently amended in 1969, 1972, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982, and 1984. It was repealed ( along with many other discriminatory laws ) on 30 June 1991 by the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act, 1991. Contents 1 Background 2 Provisions 3 Impact 3.1 Sophiatown 4 See also 5 Sources and external links 6 References Background After the 1948 general election, D.F. Malan 's administration commenced its policy of apartheid that sought to segregate the races in South Africa. The government hoped to achieve this through ' separate development ' of the races and this entailed passing laws that would ensure a distinction on social, economic, political and, in the case of the Group Areas Act, geographical lines. The Group Areas Act may be regarded as an extension of the Asiatic Land Tenure Act, 1946. Provisions The Act empowered the Governor - General to declare certain geographical areas to be for the exclusive occupation of specific racial groups. In particular the statute identified three such racial groups : whites, coloureds and natives. This authority was exercised on the advice of the Minister of the Interior and the Group Areas Board. Once an area had been designated for sole occupation by certain racial groups the proclamation would not become legally effective for at least one year. Once this time had expired it became a criminal offence to remain in occupation of property in that area with the punishment potentially being a fine and two years ' imprisonment. The Act also applied to businesses with racial designation being applied on the basis of the individuals who held a controlling interest in the company. Impact Mass Meeting at Durban on May 28, 1950 to protest against Group Area Bill and Suppression of Communism Bill. Section of gathering of over 20,000 people - Africans, Indian and Coloured. The meeting was held under joint auspices of the African National Congress, Natal Indian Congress, and the Coloured People Organisation. The Act became an effective tool in the separate development of races in South Africa. It also granted the Minister of the Interior a mandate to forcibly remove non-whites from valuable pieces of land so that they could become white settlements. Sophiatown One of the most famous uses of the Group Areas Act was the destruction of Sophiatown, a suburb of Johannesburg. On 9 February 1955 2,000 policemen began removing residents to Meadowlands, Soweto and erected a new white - only area called Triomf ( Triomf -- Afrikaans for Triumph ). See also Apartheid Apartheid laws Sources and external links List of apartheid - era legislation Original copy of the statute Cape Town 's District Six Museum which examines forced removals References Jump up ^ Women 's Anti-Pass Law Campaigns in South Africa http://africanhistory.about.com/od/apartheid/a/WomensAntiPass.htm Jump up ^ http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/history-separate-development-south-africa The History of Separate Development in South Africa Jump up ^ Davenport, T.R.H. ( 1978 ). South Africa : A Modern History. CUP. p. 259 - 9. ^ Jump up to : Loveland, Ian ( 1999 ). By Due Process of Law : Racial Discrimination & the Right to Vote in South Africa 1855 - 1960. Hart. p. 242 - 3. Jump up ^ s. 34, Group Areas Act 1950 Jump up ^ http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/urban-removals-destruction-sophiatown and district six Jump up ^ http://www.southafrica.info/about/history/sophiatown140206.htm#.Vbzqm_lViko Sophiatown again, 50 years on Apartheid legislation in South Africa Precursors ( before 1948 ) Hut tax ( 1884 ) Franchise and Ballot Act ( 1892 ) Glen Grey Act ( 1894 ) Natal Legislative Assembly Bill ( 1894 ) Transvaal Asiatic Registration Act ( 1906 ) South Africa Act ( 1909 ) Mines and Works Act ( 1911 ) Natives Land Act ( 1913 ) Natives ( Urban Areas ) Act ( 1923 ) Immorality Act ( 1927 ) Native Administration Act ( 1927 ) Representation of Natives Act ( 1936 ) Native Trust and Land Act ( 1936 ) Native ( Urban Areas ) Consolidation Act ( 1945 ) Asiatic Land Tenure Act ( 1946 ) Malan to Verwoerd ( 1948 -- 1966 ) Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act ( 1949 ) Immorality Amendment Act ( 1950 ) Population Registration Act ( 1950 ) Group Areas Act ( 1950 ) Suppression of Communism Act ( 1950 ) Native Building Workers Act ( 1951 ) Separate Representation of Voters Act ( 1951 ) Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act ( 1951 ) Bantu Authorities Act ( 1951 ) Native Laws Amendment Act ( 1952 ) Pass Laws Act ( 1952 ) Public Safety Act ( 1953 ) Native Labour ( Settlement of Disputes ) Act ( 1953 ) Bantu Education Act ( 1953 ) Reservation of Separate Amenities Act ( 1953 ) Natives Resettlement Act ( 1954 ) Group Areas Development Act ( 1955 ) Riotous Assemblies Act ( 1956 ) Industrial Conciliation Act ( 1956 ) Natives ( Prohibition of Interdicts ) Act ( 1956 ) Immorality Act ( 1957 ) Bantu Investment Corporation Act ( 1959 ) Extension of University Education Act ( 1959 ) Promotion of Bantu Self - government Act ( 1959 ) Unlawful Organizations Act ( 1960 ) Indemnity Act ( 1961 ) Coloured Persons Communal Reserves Act ( 1961 ) Republic of South Africa Constitution Act ( 1961 ) Urban Bantu Councils Act ( 1961 ) General Law Amendment Act ( 1963 ) Coloured Persons Representative Council Act ( 1964 ) Post-Verwoerd ( 1966 -- 1994 ) Terrorism Act ( 1967 ) Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act ( 1968 ) Prohibition of Political Interference Act ( 1968 ) Bantu Homelands Citizenship Act ( 1970 ) Bantu Homelands Constitution Act ( 1971 ) Aliens Control Act ( 1973 ) Indemnity Act ( 1977 ) National Key Points Act ( 1980 ) - List of National Key Points Internal Security Act ( 1982 ) Black Local Authorities Act ( 1982 ) Republic of South Africa Constitution Act ( 1983 ) This article related to Apartheid legislation in South Africa is a stub. 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Question: who came up with the group areas act
Answer: the Parliament of South Africa enacted under the apartheid government of South Africa