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The Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act, 1985 ( Act No. 72 of 1985 ) repealed the provisions of the 1957 act that prohibited interracial sex, and repealed the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act.

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The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act was repealed by the Immorality and Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Amendment Act of 1985, which was passed during the presidency of P. W. Botha.

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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

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.

* 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.

* 1933 – The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.

In the UK, the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 outlawed the procedure in Britain itself, and the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation ( Scotland ) Act 2005 made it an offence for FGM to be performed anywhere in the world on British citizens or permanent residents.

The Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act 1989, proscribes words or behaviours which are " threatening, abusive or insulting and are intended or, having regard to all the circumstances, are likely to stir up hatred " against " a group of persons in the State or elsewhere on account of their race, colour, nationality, religion, ethnic or national origins, membership of the travelling community or sexual orientation.

* 1919 – The U. S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

However, Purity Distilling did not make rum, but rather specialized in the production of industrial alcohol, which was exempt from the state prohibition laws in effect in 1919, and would later be exempted from the Volstead Act and other national Prohibition laws.

* October 28 – Prohibition in the United States is authorized: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.

Congress passed the Blaine Act, a proposed constitutional amendment to repeal Prohibition, in February.

They include Bombay Devdasi Act, 1934, Devdasi ( Prevention of dedication ) Madras Act, 1947, Karnataka Devdasi ( Prohibition of dedication ) Act, 1982, and Andhra Pradesh Devdasi ( Prohibition of dedication ) Act, 1988.