Population Registration Act

Cards (5)

  • Population Registration Act
    1950
  • Defined race classification: Asian, White, Black, or Mixed; reclassification process involved hair, skin, and nail inspection -opposed and hard to enforce, highlighting apartheid flaws, but affected everyone
  • 13 years after implementation, 20,000 people were still unclassified, and many were classified incorrectly; many whites were ‘demoted’ to lower races
  • Affected absolutely everyone - underpinned by apartheid
  • 89 Blacks → Mixed, 7Chinese → White, 1Malay → Chinese, 3Malays → White, 5 Mixed → Black, 518 Mixed → White, 17Indians →Malay, 2 White → Chinese, 14 Whites → Mixed, and 1 White →Indian