Black (Native) Amendment Act No 54

Historical Context Note

Sam Raditlhalo (University of South Arica)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 7.2.3.03: South Africa and other Southern Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Helen Rachel Cousins (Newman University), David Firth (University of Manchester)

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Date of occurrence 1952

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South Africa (Location)

One of the most hated of all the acts of Parliament because of the untold misery and suffering it would subsequently cause black people. The 1945 Urban Ares Consolidation Act was amended to specify that all black persons, men and women over the age of sixteen, were to carry passes and that no black person was to be allowed to stay in the urban areas longer than seventy-two hours unless they has permission. Section 10, which governed who could stay in the urban areas, stated that black people who had been born in the urban areas and had lived there continuously since then and those who had continuous employment for ten years or continuous residence in the urban areas for fifteen years, were the only categories of black people legally …

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Citation: Raditlhalo, Sam. "Black (Native) Amendment Act No 54". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 February 2009 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=5804, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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