1. Petty and Grand Apartheids Legislation
Presented by Melinda Nevarez

3. What was a Petty Apartheid?
The practice of segregation in the routine of daily life
Streams of laws introduced during 1950s
It involves segregation of public facilities, transport, education, and etc.
Most common and simple accusations
Focused on everyday life
Personal lives affected

4. Purpose Was to segregate races White supremacy
Better opportunities for whites
To discourage other races
To disadvantage other races
To underpay workforce

5. Some Petty Apartheid laws
Population Registration Act
Proposed in 1950
required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with his or her racial characteristics as part of the system of apartheid.
Immorality Amendment Act
amended the 1927 act to forbid unmarried sexual intercourse between "Europeans" and anyone not "European”
The prohibition was therefore extended to intercourse between white people and coloured or Asian people.

6. Reservation of Separate Amenities Act
Bantu Education Act
Proposed in 1953
was a South African segregation law which legalised several aspects of the apartheid system
Its major provision was enforcing racially separated educational facilities
Reservation of Separate Amenities Act
formed part of the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa.
The Act legalized the racial segregation of public premises, vehicles and services.

8. What was a Grand Apartheid?
refers to the underlying limitations placed on black South Africans' access to land and political rights.
Denied political representation, even citizenship
limited the personal freedom of all South African blacks
prohibited them from any significant political voice in their Government
a Government that controls nearly every facet of their existence.

9. Some Grand Apartheid laws
Bantustans
or homelands
set up for African Americans
Proposed in 1949
established by the Apartheid Government,
were areas to which the majority of the Blacks population was moved to prevent them from living in the urban areas of South Africa
Bantu Authorities Act
Proposed in 1951
It "was an attempt to restructure the government of the reserves on more traditional lines, but in practice came to mean the establishment of a system of indirect rule through the medium of subservient and sometimes well-rewarded chiefs, chosen for their preparedness to enforce government policy at the expense of their own popularity"

10. Prevention of Illegal Squatting Act
It was commenced on 6 July 1951
formed part of the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa. This act authorized the forcible removal of squatting communities
It allowed eviction and destruction of homes of squatters by landowners, local authorities and government officials
Group Areas Act of 1951
was created by the apartheid government of South Africa and assigned racial groups to different residential and business sections in urban areas
An effect of the law was to prevent nonwhites from living in the most developed areas.

11. Video

12. Why learn this? History of South Africa Apartheid
Comparing this with Israeli Apartheid

13. Activity
OPCVL- With reference to its origins, purpose, and content, analyze the value and limitations of this picture.