group areas act

A long, angry, tumultuous winter that was to last almost 40 years until 30 June 1991 as South Africa slipped the shackles of AEE and Afrikaner Nationalist Party Rule. The Group Areas Act No. 41 of 1950 was an apartheid era 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. This Act was passed by the then Parliament of South Africa under the majority … [Read more...] about 7 July 1950 Heralded a Bitter Winter for South Africa