{"id":113969,"date":"2016-02-22T10:48:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-22T08:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/113969\/on-this-day-in-south-african-history-5\/"},"modified":"2016-02-22T10:48:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T08:48:25","slug":"on-this-day-in-south-african-history-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/lifestyle-news\/entertainment-news\/2016\/02\/22\/on-this-day-in-south-african-history-5\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in South African History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, 22 February\u00a01968, The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949), an existing ban on marriages between black and white people, was extended to white and coloured people. \u00a0Although this move was opposed by United and Progressive Parties, marriage officers were given the power to decide the race of couples wanting to be married.<\/p>\n<p>If South African citizens of mixed racial descent were married outside of the country, the marriage would not be recognized in South Africa.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_96973\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96973\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/02\/Corbis-42-15481691.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96973\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/02\/Corbis-42-15481691.jpg\" alt=\"Image by \u00a9 Bettmann\/Corbis\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-96973\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by \u00a9 Bettmann\/Corbis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One year after the original Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) was adopted, a supplementary law, known as the Immorality act, was adopted. It prohibited sex between people of different races. These laws often split families, and entrenched racial division. President P W Botha removed the Act from the statutes book in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Watch SA comedian Trevor Noah talk about his experiences of growing up as a mixed race child under this law.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<div class='tie-fluid-width-video-wrapper tie-ignore-fitvid' style='margin-bottom: 30px;'>\n\t\t\t<iframe style='width: 100%; min-height: 300px; aspect-ratio: 16\/9;' src='https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/YqciCFLxfEE' loading='lazy'><\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahistory.org.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">SA History<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='78111570a7c73234b9c1d28182759030'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1968, the existing ban on marriages between white and black people (Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act 1949) was extended to white and coloured people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7783,"featured_media":113970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3686],"tags":[1306,9926,9927,3305,9928,4245,9929,9409,1539,9826,9856,2362,2032,9930],"class_list":["post-113969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment-news","category-lifestyle-news","tag-apartheid","tag-black-people","tag-colour","tag-history","tag-interracial-love","tag-marriage","tag-mixed-marriages","tag-mixed-race","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-relationship","tag-south-africa","tag-wedding","tag-white-people"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Lifestyle","SubCategory":"Entertainment"},"tag_labels":["Apartheid","black people","colour","history","interracial love","marriage","mixed marriages","mixed race","race","racism","relationship","South Africa","wedding","white people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}