| 单词 | group areas act |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGroup Areas Act Group Area n. South African (now historical) a residential or other area designated for occupation or use by a particular official ethnic group; usually in plural and attributive, designating legislation providing for such areas and prohibiting occupation or ownership of them by members of any other group; chiefly in Group Areas Act.One of the central laws of the apartheid system, the Group Areas Act was passed by the South African Parliament in 1950 and repealed in June 1991. ΘΚΠ society > law > types of laws > [noun] > relating to ethnic minorities Fleming-lauche?c1629 black code1749 Jew Bill1753 Nuremberg Laws1937 Group Area1950 1950 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 26 May 1 In the assembly today, the Prime Minister..gave notice that he would introduce a guillotine motion..limiting the discussions on the Group Areas Bill to 52 hours. 1950 Economist 2 Sept. 441/2 In the Group Areas Act, the Suppression of Communism Act, and by its control of passports, the Government has forged powerful weapons for the possible intimidation of political opponents. 1952 L. Marquard Peoples & Policies S. Afr. vii. 152 In 1950 the Group Areas Act was passed empowering the Government to declare any area a group area for Coloured, European, African, or Asian. 1982 Eastern Province Herald (Port Elizabeth) 5 Mar. 4 Multiracial sport is to be freed from the restrictions of the Group Areas Act..[which] prohibits people of one population group from using sports facilities in the group area of another race. 1998 P. Jooste Dance with Poor Man's Daughter (1999) viii. 121 We know about Group Areas. 2009 New Yorker 30 Nov. 55/2 Many of their parents and grandparents settled in the Cape Flats, outside of Cape Town, after the Group Areas Acts of the nineteen-fifties made it illegal for them to live in the city. < as lemmas |
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