Apartheid laws passed by the National Party after 1948 included the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, the Immorality Act, The Population Registration Act, and the Group Areas Act, which prohibited nonwhite males from being in certain areas of the country ( especially at night ) unless they were employed there.

When he married a French woman of Vietnamese ancestry, Yolande, he was not allowed to return: The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act ( 1949 ) and The Immorality Act ( 1950 ) made it a criminal offence for a white person to have any sexual relations with a person of a different race.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act was repealed by the Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act of 1985, which was passed during the presidency of P. W. Botha.

The group's only previous contact with other parties had been in 1985 when it briefly co-operated with the Conservative Party to oppose the repeal of the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act and the Immorality Amendment Act by P. W.

* 12 March – The Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk ( NGK ) together with its sister church for Blacks ( the NGK in Afrika ), Coloureds ( the NG Sendingkerk ) and Indians ( the Reformed Church in Africa ) issue a statement stating that the Churches bring no objection in principle if the authorities judge that circumstances justify reconsideration of the Immorality Act and the Mixed Marriages Act.

The Immorality Amendment Act, 1950 ( Act No. 21 of 1950 ) amended the 1927 act to forbid unmarried sexual intercourse between " Europeans " and anyone not " European ".

The Immorality Amendment Act, 1969 ( Act No. 57 of 1969 ) amended the 1957 act to introduce or expand a number of offences.

The Immorality Amendment Act, 1988 ( Act No. 2 of 1988 ) renamed the Immorality Act, 1957 to the Sexual Offences Act, 1957.

* 4 — In South Africa, the Immorality Amendment Act, 1988 imposes an age of consent of 19 for lesbian sex, which had previously been unregulated by the law.

With the enactment of the Immorality Amendment Act of 1950, it also became a crime for a white person and a person of another race to have sexual intercourse.

Under the Immorality Amendment Act, No 21 of 1950, people of mixed races could not reside together, which made it possible for the government to segregate the different races.

* The government passes the Immorality Amendment Act, the Group Areas Act, the Suppression of Communism Act, and the Population Registration Act ( which officially divided South Africans into ' White ', ' Coloured ', ' Asian ' or ' Native ')

In this novel, for example, we meet the supposedly obdurate Afrikaner who contravenes the infamous Immorality Act.

The Immorality Act, enacted in 1950, also made it a criminal offense for a white person to have any sexual relations with a person of a different race.

Immorality Act was the title of two acts of the Parliament of South Africa which prohibited, amongst other things, sexual relations between white people and people of other races.

The first Immorality Act, of 1927, prohibited sex between whites and blacks, until amended in 1950 to prohibit sex between whites and all non-whites.

The second Immorality Act, of 1957, continued this prohibition and also dealt with many other sex offences.

The Immorality Act, 1927 ( Act No. 5 of 1927 ) prohibited sexual intercourse outside of marriage between " Europeans " ( white people ) and " natives " ( black people ).

The Immorality Act, 1957 ( Act No. 23 of 1957 ; subsequently renamed the Sexual Offences Act, 1957 ) repealed the 1927 and 1950 acts and replaced them with a clause prohibiting sexual intercourse or " immoral or indecent acts " between white people and anyone not white.

The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome.

" Immorality is the active opposition to morality ( i. e. opposition to that which is good or right ), while amorality is variously defined as an unawareness of, indifference toward, or disbelief in any set of moral standards or principles.

He was attacked on both counts, and was one of the prime targets of Jeremy Collier's Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage.

Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema 1930-1934.

The Relapse is singled out for particular censure in the Puritan clergyman Jeremy Collier's anti-theatre pamphlet Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage ( 1698 ), which attacks its lack of poetic justice and moral sentiment.

* In his Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, clergyman Jeremy Collier attaks leading contemporary dramatists ( William Congreve and Sir John Vanbrugh most prominently, but also John Dryden, Thomas d ' Urfey, and William Wycherley ) for moral shortcomings in their works.

Immorality, then, is simply and deeply irrational.

During a photo-shoot for Drum magazine at a mine dump, Dolly and the white photographer, Jürgen Schadeberg were arrested under the Immorality Act, which forbade interracial relationships.

The 1903 Immorality Suppression Ordinance made " illicit " ( i. e. unmarried ) sex between black men and white women illegal – with a penalty of two years imprisonment for any offending white woman.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act in South Africa, enacted in 1949, banned intermarriage between different racial groups, including between whites and non-whites.

Interracial marriages had been banned in 1949 by the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949, was an apartheid law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between people of different races.

The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act of 1968 updated the original legislation to invalidate interracial marriages involving a South African citizen that were contracted in other countries.

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Under the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949, it was illegal for a white person to marry a person of another race.

* The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act is passed

* 1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.

* 1933 – Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U. S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75 % of states needed to enact the amendment ( this overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States ).

On January 16, 1919, the Eighteenth Amendment was ratified, ushering in Prohibition in the United States, which lasted from 1920 to 1933.

When Prohibition was repealed in 1933 by the Twenty-first Amendment, the rum-running industry ended.

* 1933 – The Congress of the United States proposes the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution that will end Prohibition in the United States.

* 1919 – Temperance movement: The United States ratifies the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition in the United States one year after ratification.

Prohibition was instituted with ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution on January 16, 1919, which prohibited the "... manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States ..." Congress passed the " Volstead Act " on October 28, 1919, to enforce the law, but most large cities were uninterested in enforcing the legislation, leaving an understaffed federal service to go after bootleggers.

The Repeal of Prohibition in the United States was accomplished with the passage of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution on December 5, 1933.

To define the language used in the Amendment, Congress enacted enabling legislation called the National Prohibition Act, better known as the Volstead Act, on October 28, 1919.

* The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment is founded to promote repeal of prohibition in the U. S.

Prohibition in the United States began January 16, 1919, with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, effective as of January 17, 1920, and it continued throughout the 1920s.

Prohibition in the United States began January 16, 1919, with the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution.

* January 16 – The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution, authorizing Prohibition, is ratified.

Prohibition goes into effect on January 17, 1920, under the provisions of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution.

** Prohibition begins in the United States with the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution coming into effect.

* William H. Stayton, American founder of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment ( d.?

* December 5 – The 21st Amendment to the United States Constitution is passed, repealing Prohibition.

But the most serious blows to both gangs, as well as most others around the country, was the Stock Market Crash in October 1929, which heralded the Great Depression, and the repeal of the 18th Amendment ( Prohibition ) in 1933, which had given rise to most of the lawlessness in the first place.

The National Prohibition Act, known informally as the Volstead Act, was enacted to carry out the intent of the Eighteenth Amendment which established prohibition in the United States.

Bernice is known to be something of a heavy drinker ; this has been joked about on at least one occasion ( in " Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment ", she faints upon reading the news that Prohibition has been introduced in Springfield ).

The Twenty-first Amendment ( Amendment XXI ) to the United States Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had mandated nationwide Prohibition on alcohol on January 17, 1920.

The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution had ushered in a period of time known as " Prohibition ", during which the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages was illegal.