Sunday, June 17, 2007
This Day in the History of Changes for the Better
On this day in 1991, The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act, which was the basis of all apartheid laws in South Africa. It had required all South Africans to be classified at birth: Caucasian, mixed, Asian and black. Apartheid laws obviously couldn't have existed without those racial categories. The Population Registration Act was the penultimate apartheid law to be repealed; the last apartheid law prevented blacks from voting.
Labels: South Africa; End of Apartheid
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:02 AM 
