ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the essential points of the Population Registration Act No. 30 of 1950. A population register is actually a book containing the life-story of every individual whose name is recorded on that register. It contains the most important facts relating to such a person. In some cases the life-story of the individual is very short. All those important facts regarding the life of every individual will be combined in this book and recorded under the name of a specific person, who can never change his identity. The determination of a person's race is of the greatest importance in the enforcement of any existing or future laws in connection with separate residential areas. There has been considerable pressure on Coloured people in the Transvaal and elsewhere to present themselves to census officials for race classification. Coloured people have maintained that race classification was introduced 300 years too late.
