Group areas act, 1950

​Group areas act, 1950
A South African segregrationist law enacted to assign different residential and business sections in urban areas to different racial groups. Mainly the law gave whites the right to the better and developed areas, and restriced non whites to a much smaller less developed land.

​Group Areas Act, 1950​ gave the Minister of the Interior the power to remove non-whites from land deemed valuable, to make way for white settlements. When the Minister of the Interior chose a area for a racial group, it would take one year for the law to go into effect, after that year expired, residing there would be a criminal offence for the different racial groups. This act can be seen as an extension of the Asiatic Land Tenure Act​​, 1946​ (an act specifically targeted to Asians, to confine Asian ownership and to limit the ownership to clearly defined areas of the town).
 * Reappropriation of property would happen, and if there were remaining residents of other races, the punishment could be a fine and two years imprisonment.

The act was repealed by the law ​Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act, 1991​.

​For futher reading, consider; http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/group-areas-act-1950