ABSTRACT
This chapter explains Gwendolen Carter’s book The Politics of Inequality, which, though critical of the doctrines of apartheid, is extremely reliable in its facts. One of the earliest of the Nationalist measures struck at the marriages still taking place infrequently between Europeans and non-Europeans, that is, chiefly, the Coloured. Miscegenation, out of which the Cape Coloured arose originally, has long been socially unacceptable in South Africa. The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949, and an amended Immorality Act passed the following year, extended these provisions to the relations between Europeans and Coloured. The companion legislation to the Mixed Marriages Act was the amendment to extend to the Coloured the provisions of the Immorality Act of 1927. The chapter discusses the apartheid in Prohibition of Improper Interference Bill of 1966, and banishment and banning of organisations and individuals.
