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Public Health, Housing, Slums and Indian segregation acts

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Kind legislation gazette
Producer Union/Transvaal legislatures
Coverage 1919-1950s
Works using it 3

Debates

Debate Works
Urban segregation, Group Areas and the apartheid city 3
Historiographical approaches 1
Influx control, pass laws and African urbanisation 1
Origins, coherence and ideology of apartheid and Afrikaner nationalism 1

Works using this source

Work As cited Period How used
Christopher (1990) Legislation: Housing Act 1920, Natives (Urban Areas) Act 1923, Slums Act 1934, Trading and Occupation of Land Act 1943, Asiatic Land Tenure Act 1946, Population Registration Act 1950, Group Areas Act 1950 1913-1950s Legislative overview establishing the intent of segregation policy against which index outcomes are interpreted.
Mabin (1990) Legislation: 1919 Public Health Act, 1920 Housing Act, 1923 Natives (Urban Areas) Act, 1931 Transvaal Town Planning Ordinance, 1934 Slums Act, 1946 Asiatic Land Tenure Act, 1947 NRDC Act 1919-1947 Traces the legislative accumulation of planning and segregation powers culminating in the GAA.
Maylam (1995) 1919 Public Health Act and 1934 Slums Act 1919; 1934 Examples of indirect segregationist legislation operating through public health and slum clearance.
Maylam (1995) 1920 Housing Act (Central Housing Board) and 1943 Housing Amendment Act 1920; 1943 Shows housing legislation embedded racial definition and restriction in public housing.
Maylam (1995) 1931 Transvaal Town Planning Ordinance 1931 Cited as town-planning law that reinforced racial zoning from the 1930s.
Maylam (1995) 1943 Pegging Act and 1946 'Ghetto Act' 1943; 1946 Evidence that the United Party government favoured racial zoning before 1948.