Talk:Immorality Act

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There's links to more detailed articles that are 'removed' from this article. It would be more efficient to link these articles to this one (more specifically, the 1927 Immorality Act Page could be combined with this one) EDreelin (talk) 17:58, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

In addition, I'd like to add some more details from both the articles already located on Wikipedia and several outside resources. some mroe general information in necessary to fully understand the topic (i.e. I feel as though there are some important pieces to the legislation currently left out). EDreelin (talk) 19:17, 16 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I cannot imagine why you would replace "absurd" with "controversial" in reference to a ban on sex between blacks and whites.

To me that's no less inaccurate than "Holocaust was one of the controversial Hitler's policies".

Call the spade a spade. Apartheid should be called an idiocy deprived of scientific, political, moral or other sense along all systems of value dominant in the present world.

I agree with "controversial," it is NPOV. Mick 04:41 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Does the Immorality Act actually cover marriage or it that covered by the Mixed marriage Act. I think some things probably need to be separated here. Rmhermen 04:30 14 Jun 2003 (UTC)

Dear Mick; I hope you would not call Holocaust "controversial" for the sake of NPOV? I hope some other souls will still sway the vote against apartheid as per my plea. (in democracy, when a vast majority agree to call things "absurd" they are called absurd even if there is a minority that disagree :(

Wikipedia is WP:NOT a democracy. Majority does not rule. Also, NPOV means that no matter how many people disagree with something, you have to present it neutrally. -AKMask 00:52, 21 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Did it also forbid serious relationships, or only marriage and casual sex? The current article seems to be written by a religious zealot who thinks any relationship outside marriage is immoral. 80.99.101.46 17:29, 16 May 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Life as it was...

I recall June 2005 as if it were yesterday. We were one of the first, if not the first mixed married couple in Cape Town. After living a life behind closed curtains and locked doors for 10 years we were finally allowed to tie the knot officially and begin living our lives as humans. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Capelass (talk • contribs) 12:28, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sexual relations between races

This article does not describe the laws around sexual relations between races, only those between whites and other races. Greenman (talk)

Correctly so, as the Immorality Act never prohibited sex between non-white people of different races. The first Immorality Act (1927) forbade sex between "Europeans" and "natives". In 1950 it was amended to forbid sex between "Europeans" and "non-Europeans". The second Immorality Act (1957) forbade sex between "white people" and "coloured people", where "coloured person" was defined as "any person other than a white person". See: the Immorality Act, 1927, the same act as amended in 1950, and the Immorality Act, 1957. - htonl (talk) 13:20, 7 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Interesting, so the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, 1949 prohibited marriages between people of different races (according to the article), but the Immorality Act had more limited restrictions. See comments at Talk:Apartheid for resulting confusions in that article. Greenman (talk) 06:06, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

In fact, the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act only prohibited marriages between "Europeans" and "non-Europeans"; the article is inaccurate. (See: text of the act). - htonl (talk) 08:56, 8 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]