Laws from South Africa's Apartheid Era

Black and Education

In May of 1902 the Peace of Vereeniging was signed between Boer forces and the British (putting an end to a set of wars between the two sides). After a few years, the former Boer republics joined with the British territories and, in May of 1910, they formed the Union of South Africa. The African National Congress was then created, just two years later, in 1912 to respond to the white-run government. Ironically, eight years after this formation, in 1918, Nelson Mandela was also born. The government began to, immediately, codify its suppression of black South Africans. In 1913 the Natives Land Act was passed which set aside about 13% of South Africa's land for the "Native population." It prohibited blacks from buying, renting, or using land anywhere outside of the areas that were set aside for them.