The Group Areas Act of 1950 divided South Africa into areas based on racial categories, as determined by the government. The act was one of the policies of the white minority government that sanctioned racial segregation and political and economic discrimination against the nonwhite majority during the country’s apartheid era. The act was used primarily to push nonwhites out of areas in which they had previously settled.
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