South Africa’s white government could create segregated and unequal facilities without fear that they would be declared illegal by the country’s courts.
The Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, Act No 49 of 1953, formed part of the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa. The Act legalized the racial segregation of public premises, vehicles and services. Only public roads and streets were excluded from the Act.  The Separate Amenities Act was passed in 1953 and gave governments and privately owned enterprises the right to reserve facilities such as parks, hotels, swimming pools, toilets and recreation centers for whites only. But in hundreds of smaller towns and villages, there have been no public facilities for blacks or vastly inferior segregated ones. The Separate Amenities Act does not affect neighborhoods and schools, the main institutions still segregated under the government's apartheid laws. In Parliament in Cape Town, De Klerk's ruling National Party and the anti-apartheid Democratic Party outvoted the Conservative Party to scrap the law, 105 to 38 The Reservation of Separate Amenities Act was repealed by the Discriminatory Legislation regarding Public Amenities Repeal Act, 1990, and the Population Registration Act was repealed by the Population Registration Act Repeal Act, 1991, but the racial classifications remained on the population register until 1994.  South African Parliament repeals The Separate Amenities Act of 1953. The Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, Act No 49 of 1953, formed part of the apartheid system of racial segregation in South Africa. The Act enforced segregation of all public facilities, including buildings, and transport, in order to limit contact between the different races in South Africa. • South African History Archives(SAHA), 15 October marks 22 years since the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act was repealed , From South African History Archives(SAHA) ,[Online] available at: www.saha.org.za ,[Accessed: 08 October 2013]. That law, also known as the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, was passed so that South Africa’s white government could create segregated and unequal facilities without fear that they would be declared illegal by the country’s courts. Before 1953, segregation already existed in South Africa. It did these things because the white government of South Africa wanted the legal right to segregate non-whites in inferior facilities and /or to exclude them from facilities altogether. Sources: 1  https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Reservation_of_Separate_Am... 2  https://www.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03... Statutes of the Union of South Africa. Description. The Act was to provide for the reservation of public premises and vehicles or portions thereof for the exclusive use of persons of a particular race or class, for the interpretation of laws which provide for such reservation, and for matters incidental thereto. Format extent (length/size). 2 pages. View Larger Short title. 5. This Act shall be called the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act, 1953. This work is in the public domain because it was created and first published in South Africa and it is an official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, or an official translation of such a text. Act. To provide for the reservation of public premises and vehicles or portions thereof for the exclusive use of persons of a particular race or class, for the interpretation of laws which provide for such reservation, and for matters incidental thereto. I assume that this is a question about South Africa. If so, the Separate Amenities Act (more properly known as the Reservation of Separate Amenities Act) was passed in 1953. Thus, we can say that it started in that year. The Separate Amenities Act was part of the South African system of apartheid. Because courts sometimes upheld this standard, the Separate Amenities Act was passed. The Separate Amenities Act did not just say that all public facilities could be segregated. It also explicitly stated that the facilities for white people could be better than those for non-whites.
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