SA History Timeline

1950

Immorality Amendment Act

The Immorality Amendment Act criminalised sexual relations across the apartheid racial categories, extending earlier immorality laws.

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legislation

The Immorality Amendment Act criminalised sexual relations across the apartheid racial categories, extending earlier immorality laws.

Significance

Together with Mixed Marriages and Population Registration, it policed race through intimate life.

Why it matters

Together with Mixed Marriages and Population Registration, it policed race through intimate life.