Many black leaders tried to use petitions, delegations and other diplomatic methods as a result of the respect towards British legalism and liberalism and the British and American missionaries, demanding freedom and social equality. By 1950, the Afrikaans government led by the National Party, had not only prohibited inter-racial marriages but the sexual relations between races as well. The Population Registration Act of 1950 classified all South Africans by their race: Bantu – black Africans; Colored – mixed race; white and the fourth category of Asians – Indians, Pakistanis, which was added later. "The absurdity of this system is exemplified by the story of Vic Wilkinson, who was alternatively classified as Coloured, then White, and finally back to Coloured again."3 Moreover, the pass-laws obliged non-whites to carry documents allowing their presence in restrained areas otherwise they could have been detained. Additionally, they limited the non-white labor unions and did not accept non-whites in the national government. "Verwoerd's 1953 Bantu Education Act established an inferior education system for Africans based upon a curriculum intended to produce manual laborers and obedient subjects. Similar discriminatory education laws were also imposed on Coloureds, who had lost the right to vote in 1956, and Indians"4 Later in the 1960s, a new policy of Grant Apartheid came in power. Around 3,5 million Africans were moved by force to ethnically separated Bantustans (Homelands) located in the most unproductive parts of the country. Homelands served as a dumping ground of cheap labor for white entrepreneurs. Moreover, they were supposed to function as independent territories making sure that people from Homelands would be denied South African citizenship. However, none of these measures stopped great number of black (and even some white) South Africans from resistance in various forms ranging from peaceful demonstration, protests to political action and armed resistance.
