Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949

And a black person with a university degree, who was capable of doing that job and had the appropriate qualifications, was not allowed to get that job because I, as a white person, had applied.

And then I saw not only the human rights violations but the economic cost of the Group Areas Act where people had to live in certain areas, the Immorality Act which forbade sexual relationships between different races, the Mixed Marriage Act which forbid you from getting married across what was called the colour bar.

And I just couldn't believe it.

And the more I studied, the more upset I got.

Mm.

For example, ultimately it was about the, the Mixed Marriages Act, prohibition of mixed marriages act, about the no sexual relations between different groups.

Um, and it was also about, uh, matters about, for example, residential areas and reservations within that respect.

Um, but it was then Presi-- uh, uh, Dr. Verwoerd as, as prime minister where-- and, and he, he became prime minister in 1958, um, that he introduced first of all the issue of the union, the union of South Africa, which was a very important objective of him.