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Mon, 06.17.1991

The Population Registration Act, Act No 30, is Repealed

*On this date in 1991, the Population Registration Act, Act No. 30 of 1950, was repealed.

The Act was a pillar of the Apartheid system. It required people to register from birth as belonging to one of four different racial groups, White, Black, Coloured, and Indian. The Act was repealed by the Population Registration Act of the South African parliament with Act No. 114 of 1991.

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O, poet gifted with sight divine! To thee t'was given Eden's groves to pace With that first pair in whom the human race Their kinship claim: and angels did decline- Great Michael, holy... MILTON by Henrietta Cordelia Ray.
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