Group Areas Act 1950

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	legislation gazette
Producer	Union of South Africa Parliament
Coverage	1950-1970s
Works using it	2

Debates

Debate	Works
Historiographical approaches	2
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city	2
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation	1
Liberal vs revisionist: was apartheid functional or dysfunctional for capitalist growth?	1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crush (1984)	Group Areas Act (as applied in Cape Town and Mowbray)	1950s-1970s	The legislation whose implementation and effects Western reconstructs, including forced removals and property-owner outcomes.
Maylam (1995)	1950 Group Areas Act	1950	Treated as the culmination of earlier policy, not a radical break, since cities were already largely segregated.