Immorality
Who gets to decide?
Who gets to decide?
Considered by many as one of South Africa's finest poets, Breyten Breytenbach's work is a milestone in the formal and political development of Afrikaans poetry. He has an international literary reputation with work that has been translated into Dutch, English, French and German.
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949, was an apartheid law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between people of different races. It was among the first pieces of apartheid legislation to be passed following the National Party's rise to power in 1948. Subsequent legislation required all individuals living in South Africa to register as a member of one of four officially defined racial groups and prohibited sexual relationships between people of different races.
A committed opponent of the policy of apartheid, he left South Africa in the early 1960s. When he married a French woman of Vietnamese ancestry, Yolande, he was not allowed to return: The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act (1949) and The Immorality Act (1950) made it a criminal offence for a white person to have any sexual relations with a person of a different race.
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949, was an apartheid law in South Africa that prohibited marriages between people of different races. It was among the first pieces of apartheid legislation to be passed following the National Party's rise to power in 1948. Subsequent legislation required all individuals living in South Africa to register as a member of one of four officially defined racial groups and prohibited sexual relationships between people of different races.
Title: Immorality
Medium: Mixed MediaSize: 1.4 x 0.9 m
