Minor Index Update – 13 March 2025
Two race laws added. After receiving and verifying information from Mr Garth Schoeman, the Defence Act (44 of 1957) was included in the Index. Thank you to Mr Schoeman for his valuable assistance. Additionally, upon independent inquiry, the Expropriation Act (63 of 1975) was found to be originally racial but deracialised in 1991.
Total race laws therefore revised from 317 to 319, and pre-democratic era race laws revised from 200 to 202. The number of laws that are or were racial and are operative, remains 142 (9 of which have been deracialised).
The Methodology page has been updated to reflect that the Index of Race Law does not consider anti-discrimination provisions as race law, nor was the Index constructed through a find-word method. All Acts were verified, to the best of our ability, as containing racial provisions, though the possibility of error is never entirely absent.