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| 1936, April 7 |
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| Passage of Natives Representation Act removed the Cape African franchise and set up the advisory Natives Representative Council (NRC); simultaneous passage of Natives Trust and Land Act added land to native reserves and required six months' service of African tenants on white-owned land. | 1 |
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| 1937 |
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| Marketing Act extended farm price subsidies, increasing agricultural output and use of African labor, in competition with better-paying industrial jobs. | 2 |
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| 1938 |
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| Electoral gains by the Purified Nationalist Party. Centennial of the Great Trek used to galvanize Afrikaner nationalism. Census of urban areas used to enforce segregation. | 3 |
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| 1939, Sept |
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| South Africa joined World War II on the side of Britain, leading to the resignation of Hertzog; Smuts became prime minister; Purified Nationalists emerged as the main Afrikaner party. | 4 |
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| 1940, Jan. 1 |
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| Price controls introduced in South Africa. (See Southern Africa) | 5 |
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