Heritage
Email Article Email
Print Article Print

RACE CLASSIFICATION

Legislation and legal records as historical sources

In this lesson plan, learners will have the chance to interact with information from clauses of the Population Registration Act of 1950 as well as from various legal records associated with two cases of people appealing for reclassification.

In this lesson plan, learners will have the chance to interact with information from clauses of the Population Registration Act of 1950 as well as from various legal records associated with two cases of people appealing for reclassification.

You will need Adobe Reader to view the lesson plans. If you do not have Adobe Reader installed on your computer, you can download it, free of charge, for your Windows or Mac OS, from:

» http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

» Page 1

» Page 2

» Page 3

» Page 4

» Page 5


» ARCHIVE PHOTO GALLERY 
A selection of images of race classification’s victims, enforcers and signs
» ARTWORK PHOTO GALLERY 
Roderick Sauls’s installation is a stark reminder of how brutal human beings can be to one another
» AUDIO DOCUMENTARY 
Listen to stories of the heartbreak caused by apartheid’s race classification laws
» Map 
Get directions to the Race Classification Board memorial in Cape Town
» Panorama 
A 360° tour of the memorial to race classification and the street where it is installed
» Video Documentary 
Watch a video of the race classification memorial and hear what Capetonians think of it