The Aliens Control Act No 40 of 1973 of South Africa exempted the racial group of Indians from the need to obtain permits for travel between provinces. However, in terms of provincial legislation at the time, Indians were not allowed to stay in the Orange Free State and parts of northern Natal for more than a brief period unless prior permission had been obtained.
Repeal The laws prohibiting Indians from residing in the Orange Free State and northern Natal, from which the Aliens Control Act had granted an exemption, were themselves repealed in 1986.
The act was repealed by section 60 of the Aliens Control Act, 1991. The 1991 Act allowed any police officer to declare a person suspected of being an illegal immigrant in South Africa a "prohibited person" and to deport them. By the mid-1990s, it was regarded as "possibly the ugliest leftover from apartheid" for continuing to favor white over non-white immigration.
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