MICHAEL MORRIS: ANC scandalously sustains apartheid legacy of racial laws
No fewer than 116 of 313 racial acts of parliament that started in 1911 have been adopted since 1994, and 132 are still operative
30 January 2023 - 05:07
A long march of time separates SA’s Mines & Works Act of 1911 and its Foreign Service Act of 2019. The circumstances in which the first was conceived and drafted were a universe away from those in which the 2019 law came into being.
Life in the early 21st century would have been barely imaginable in the first year after union, and it’s probably fair to say most of us would struggle to gain a real sense of what it was actually like to be alive in 1911...
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