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Population Registration Act, 1950
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Oct 13, 2026
David Ansara: Why America's Five Asks Would Free South Africans, and the ANC Won't Budge
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19:33David AnsaraGUEST
You're basically saying that you need to adjudicate somebody based on their external characteristics.
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19:40David AnsaraGUEST
And then when you ask, as Gerhard Papenfuss of NIASA, an employer's association, he actually wrote to the Minister of Labour and said, well, how are employers actually supposed to adjudicate employees? who fits into which racial category? And her response was, of course, the Population Registration Act, which was the apartheid era legislation which was repealed.
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20:02David AnsaraGUEST
Yes.
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20:03David AnsaraGUEST
So explicitly referencing apartheid laws, so-called in the name of justice.
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20:09Gabriel MakinHOST
The Population Registration Act, just quickly, that's the one with the pencil test.
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20:13Gabriel MakinHOST
Is that how we get there?
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20:16David AnsaraGUEST
Yeah, basically.