population registration act

• when was the population registration act?

  1950
• what was the population registration act?

  designated ethnic categories for everyone - based on apperance

  4 groups: black, white, coloured, indian

  everyone had to register into their group
• what was the effect of the population registration act?

  laws could be designated to a specific people in a specific group

  rights were determined by what group you belonged to
• what was a problem with the populaion registration act?

  light skinned members of other groups could be passed as white