Race Otherwise by Zimitri Erasmus

Author:Zimitri Erasmus [Erasmus, Zimitri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Minority Studies, Sociology, General
ISBN: 9781776141852
Google: fDZjDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2017-08-30T05:50:18+00:00

RACE CLASSIFICATION: TWENTIETH- AND TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY SOUTH AFRICA

Race classification practices in South Africa are best understood in light of this long history of naming categories of people and in light of the politics of racialised citizenship. The formation of consecutive colonial governments – the Union government of 1910, the Pact government (1924), the Fusion government (1943) and the apartheid government of 1948 – meant that racial inequality was increasingly entrenched in law through the use of race classification. In apartheid South Africa this was reflected in the Population Registration Act No. 30 of 1950, which stipulated the following race categories: White, Native (divided into ‘tribes’) and Coloured, with Indian a sub-category of Coloured. Section 1 of this Act defined these categories as follows:

(iii) ‘coloured person’ means a person who is not a white person or a native; ... (x) ‘native’ means a person who in fact is or is generally accepted as a member of any aboriginal race or tribe of Africa; ...

(xv) ‘white person’ means a person who in appearance obviously is, or who is generally accepted as a white person, but does not include a person who, although in appearance obviously a white person, is generally accepted as a coloured person.

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