South African statutes that built apartheid and later answered it: the Natives Land Act, the Population Registration Act, the Group Areas Act and the Bantu Education Act, and the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act that created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. A statute belongs here when its cited article describes a South African act on race, land or reconciliation. It excludes acts of other countries.
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Group Areas Act, Wikipedia
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Group Areas Act was the title of three acts of the Parliament of South Africa enacted under the apartheid government of South Africa.
Population Registration Act, 1950 (Wikipedia)
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The Population Registration Act of 1950 required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with their racial characteristics and culture as part of the system of apartheid.
Natives Land Act, 1913, Wikipedia
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The Natives Land Act, 1913 (subsequently renamed Bantu Land Act, 1913 and Black Land Act, 1913; Act No. 27 of 1913) was an Act of the Parliament of South Africa that was aimed at regulating the acquisition of land. It largely prohibited the sale of land from whites to blacks and vice-versa.
Bantu Education Act, 1953 (Wikipedia)
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The Bantu ( Blacks ) Education Act 1953 (Act No. 47 of 1953; later renamed the Black Education Act, 1953) was a South African segregation law of the apartheid system whose main purpose was to limit the educational opportunities of Black children in the country.
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