Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… Affairs Department on 17 February 1950. In March 1951, Verwoerd settled the plan to clear the Western Areas of … transgress a law (see Figure 3) (Kane-Berman, 74). Between 1951 and 1962, there were over four million convictions for … Act (1950), the Separate Representation of Voters Act (1951), the Bantu Authorities Act (1951), and the Natives …