The South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) has launched the #NoMoreRaceLaws Bill, urging Parliament to repeal all race-based statutory provisions in South African law.

This action seeks to rectify the nation’s continuous system of racial classification from the apartheid era, which the SAIRR contends is incompatible with the non-racialism premise of the Constitution.

The SAIRR has launched a public petition in support of the #NoMoreRaceLaws Bill and has urged members of the public to sign and share the petition.

Head of Strategic Communications at the institute and lead author of the Bill, Hermann Pretorius, ” Since 1994, 117 race-based laws have been passed, yet that capacity to classify according to race in SA was removed by the repeal of the Population Registration Act and made on constitutional binds 1993 and 1996 constitutions. So, we are in a situation now that after 30-years of democracy, after more than 30-years of there being no law on which to base any racial classification, we still see race-based policies whether its BEE or sport quotas in cricket teams. It is illegal, it is a perverse remnant of one of Apartheid’s worst pieces of legislation.”