ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the document of Separate Amenities Act, No. 49 of 1953, which disposes finally of the doctrine of ‘Separate but Equal’ in South African life. It presents a classic example of the arguments for influx control as presented by the Minister of Native Affairs and against influx control as expounded by Mrs. Margaret Ballinger, taken from the House of Assembly Hansard of 1952. The chapter explains four co-ordinating trade union bodies in South Africa, namely the S.A. Confederation of Labour, the Trade Union Council of South Africa, the Federation of Free African Trade Unions and the left-wing S.A. Congress of Trade Unions. It reviews coloured disfranchisement and the constitutional struggles connected with it. The chapter finally explains an elaborate system of African local government through tribal, regional and territorial authorities, and almost incidentally abolishes African representation in Parliament.
