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Contributing to: Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949

Info already there: Timeline (when it was enacted, updated, and repealed) and one statistic about how common mixed-race marriages were (In the three years before its enactment, mixed marriages accounted for just 0.23% of all marriages in the country.)*

Points to add & sources to back them up:

Adding to legislative history* section:

- Act was passed by the National party

Creating a new section (enforcement? punishment? - not sure about title)

- unofficial punishment = being ostracized by community

-Ethal = a white former sex worker who married an African man and felt that her white peers accepted her more as a sex worker than as the wife of a black man

- official punishment = being arrested

-Enforcment = case-by-case basis depending on officer BUT "africans" and "coloureds" could be subject to

-being followed to or from their homes to ensure they were not in an interracial relationship

-having their IDs examined to ensure they were of the same race

-arrest for simply interacting with someone of the opposite sex (gender?) and a different race if officer felt like it -> not enforced equally/no universal process

-punishment for anyone who officiates a mixed marriage = maximum fine of 50 pounds

*bolded = taken from the existing article (Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949)

Sources: the act itself (PDF) and journal article (Inter-racial Marriages in South Africa by Cardell K. Jacobsen, Acheampong Yaw Amoateng and Tim B. Heaton)