The beginnings of urban segregation in South Africa : the Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923 and its background

Davenport, T R H

Title: The beginnings of urban segregation in South Africa : the Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923 and its background
Title: Occasional papers, no. 15
Creator: Davenport, T R H
Subject: Apartheid South Africa. Natives (Urban Areas) Act, 1923 Apartheid -- South Africa
Date Issued: 1971
Date: 1971
Type: Book
Type: Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2802
Identifier: vital:20327
Description: A bad influenza epidemic hit South Africa in 1918, and in the words of the Department of Native Affairs it afforded to the general public a startling revelation of the distressing conditions under which the Natives live in our urban centres and to what a great extent these conditions were a standing menace to the health of the whole population, European and native alike. It was an incentive to press ahead with the urban areas legislation, and in this task the Department now had the assistance of two new bodies, the statutory Native Affairs Commission set up under the Native Affairs Act of 1920, and the Transvaal Local Government Commission under Colonel C. F. Stallard. The Department announced a revised Bill in its Report for 1922. It contained most of the clauses of the 1918 Bill had a pronounced welfare focus, and aimed to give local authorities necessary powers to provide adequate housing and services, if necessary by borrowing money and recouping themselves through trading ventures in the locations.
Description: Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
Format: v, 104 pages
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research
Language: English
Relation: Occasional papers, no. 15
Rights: Whisson, M G
Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

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