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Group Areas Act logo #21000 Group Areas Act was the title of three acts of the Parliament of South Africa enacted under the apartheid government of South Africa. The acts assigned racial groups to different residential and business sections in urban areas in a system of urban apartheid. An effect of the law was to exclude non-Whites from living in the most developed areas, w...
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Group Areas Act

Group Areas Act logo #21003(from the article `Cape Town`) South Africa`s Group Areas Act of 1966 consolidated earlier acts aimed at enforcing the policy of racial segregation known as apartheid, and it ...
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Group Areas Act

Group Areas Act logo #21003(from the article `apartheid`) ...segregation, sanctioned by law, was widely practiced in South Africa before 1948, but the National Party, which gained office that year, extended ... `Grand apartheid,` in contrast, related to the physical separation of the racial groups in the cities and countryside. Under the Group Areas Act...
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Group Areas Act

Group Areas Act logo #20688In South Africa, a legislative act of 1950 under which the different races in South Africa were assigned to separate areas. Demonstrations and inter-ethnic riots resulted from...
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