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Apartheid - Legal Frameworks

Title: Apartheid - Legal Frameworks
Alternative Title: Legal Frameworks of Apartheid South Africa
Creator: Various
Description: The Apartheid – Legal Frameworks item set is a digitised archival grouping within the Cory Library and Historical Archives at Rhodes University. This set brings together primary legal and analytical sources that document aspects of South Africa’s apartheid legal regime and its legislative foundations. The item set includes two key documents that elucidate state policies and laws underpinning racial segregation and control during the apartheid era.
Language: English
Provenance: Originals held by the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University
Type: Collection
Genre: Legal analysis; Archival documents; Government/official list
Subject: Apartheid — Legal frameworks — South Africa; Bantu Laws Amendment Act — South Africa; Urban segregation — South Africa — Law; Censorship — South Africaform
Format: Digital documents (scanned originals)
Coverage: South Africa — apartheid legal structures

Hierarchies: Apartheid, the Struggle and the People
Anti-Apartheid Movement and Acts of Defiance (7 items)
Apartheid - Legal Frameworks (2 items)
Forced Removals and Evictions (104 items)
Klipfontein & Glenmore, Cape Province - Forced Removals Collection (1979) (84 items)
Oxton and Zweledinga, Cape Province - Forced Removals Collection (1980) (20 items)
The People versus the State (12 items)

Index of Objectionable Literature (Customs Act No. 55 of 1955)
The new townsmen: the legal position of the African in the white areas today
This study of urban African legislation is prompted by the widespread public interest in the controversial Bantu Laws Amendment Acts — now in force as the Bantu Labour Act, No. 67 of 1964. It will seek to give a picture of the purpose and effect of this legislation.