The law was introduced by the apartheid government as part of its overall policy of separateness.
Mixed marriages did not become completely taboo until the rise of the National Party in 1948.
These four groups were White, Coloured, Indian and Black.
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The apartheid government then criminalised marriages between people of different racial groups.
The punishment for people found to be in a mixed marriage involved arrest and a jail sentence.
Anyone who knowingly officiated a marriage that violated the act was fined.
Any interracial marriages that occurred outside the country were nullified by the South African law.
It was passed during the presidency of P. W. Botha.
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