The racial classifications established by the Population Registration Act were used to determine where people could live, work, and obtain services, often leading to unequal access to resources based on one’s classification. Another issue was that members of families were not always classified in the same racial category, and, under the Group Areas Act (1950), this sometimes meant that not everyone in the family was allowed to live together.
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