GROUP AREAS ACT

The 'Group Areas Act of 1950' (Act No. 41 of 1950) was an act of parliament created under the apartheid government of South Africa that assigned races to different residential and business sections in urban areas in a system of urban apartheid. The effect of the law was essentially to exclude any non-White from being allowed to live in established towns or to live and work in any established economically viable areas - all of which were proclaimed to be White areas. It caused many non-Whites to have to commute large distances from their homes in order to be able to work. The law led to non-Whites being forcibly removed for living in the "wrong" areas.
This act was finally repealed 41 years later, on June 5 1991 — at the same time as the Land Act of 1913 (see apartheid).

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★ List of apartheid-era legislation