The first thing the ANP did was to establish Apartheid officially. Many new measures were taken, first of which was the Race Classification Act, which made sure that the entire population was split up into 4 groups; White, Black, Coloured and Indian. Also, only the whites (15% of the population) had the right to vote. The second act of the ANP was the Population Regulation Act. It was made to strengthen the first act. It’s details defined to races thoroughly. In some incidents, it was used to decide whether an abandoned or unidentified child was white or coloured. A strand of the child’s hair was taken to a laboratory and it’s width measured. It was proved to be thicker than a normal white persons hair and so the child was classed as "coloured. After the first two acts, 317 laws were passed involving Apartheid of the races.
The ANP decided that 84% of the land would be given to the whites, 14% for blacks and the remaining 2% was to be given to the small amount of Indians. Because of this act, Black slaves and workers were forced to carry passes with them at all times when in "White territory". It included identification cards and the timetable of when they were allowed to enter and leave. Failure to carry these meant almost certain imprisonment. This led the events of the 21st of March 1960, when 20,000 people congregated in Sharpeville to demonstrate against the requirement to carry identity cards. Police opened fire on the demonstrators, killing 56 and injuring 162. All the victims were black.
The Immorality Act meant that a white person wasn’t allowed to have a sexual relationship with a person of a different race. The police were allowed with the power to shine torches into cars and to raid houses to take certain items (bed sheets) for examination.
The Bantu Education Act meant Blacks were restricted to only unskilled jobs. They were not allowed to attend school after 14 years of age, except with the permission of a high-class white person (usually to make a good slave). The schoolwork they were given was of a significant different curriculum to the whites and they had far lower expectations.
One example of how blacks work was restricted is that blacks are allowed to hammer a nail but are not allowed to use the claw of the hammer to extract a nail, which is considered to be more superior work for more intelligent whites.
During Apartheid, facilities and areas were all separated, Beaches, hospitals, toilets, schools, everything. Black men were allowed into white churches but not to pray, but to clean. Under no circumstances were the black people allowed to make use of the white amenities, even if a black child was seriously injured, and the closest black hospital was an hours drive away while the white hospital was just around the corner, the child would not be admitted.
The disgraceful treatment dished out for “non-whites” was not without opposition from within the white race itself. These few people fought for black rights, but unfortunately, they were unsuccessful. Eventually, this led to interracial relationships, which were made illegal. Children born of these relationships were known as "coloureds" and were regarded no better than the blacks. They were never truly accepted into the black or white communities. In the same way, Indian people, brought over by the British from their colonies, were treated with only a tiny bit more respect, and their difficulty in the 50’s went mostly unrecognised.
I think that all of the Apartheid laws were fixed to tell blacks that whites were the stronger, smarter race and they deserved better standards for life, Even though Apartheid is purely based on extreme racism. Acts such as the Immorality act were made to make sure that whites were comfortably separated from blacks. From the mid 1600’s the whites thought they were better than the blacks and for almost 400 years, their believes didn’t change.
Human rights for blacks were clearly not acknowledged at all. Also, Imprisonment without trial was common for the blacks, and the right to speak publicly and write for publication was absolutely forbidden. Due to his activism against Apartheid, Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. The blacks were made to suffer this “racial segregation” policy for a total of 46 years before Apartheid ended, but racism still continues even to this day.