free, adjective

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Of urban areas: in apartheid legislation (especially in the phrases free settlement area and free trade area), open to all races for residential or trading purposes respectively. See also open adjective.
1978 Report of Commiss. of Inquiry into Legislation Affecting Utilization of Manpower (RP32–1979) 225Free trade areas...The Commission recommends that..the restrictive provisions on acquisition, ownership or occupation by disqualified persons in specific demarcated areas in the central business centres of cities and towns not be applicable to buildings, land and premises in such areas which are used exclusively for trading, commercial or professional purposes.
1981 P. Lange in E. Prov. Herald 27 May 1The move was made because of the recommendation by the Riekert Commission that the Group Areas Act be amended to create free trade zones.
1988 Daily Dispatch 27 July 1The Free Settlement Areas Bill is part of a trilogy of proposed Group Areas legislation announced last month.
1989 Weekend Post 28 Oct. 3North End..is now..thriving...The business revival was aided by turning it into a free trade area.
1989 E. Prov. Herald 29 Nov. 1The Government is pushing for Lawaaikamp, a settlement near George and classified as a ‘brown group area,’ to be declared a Free Settlement Area.
1989 ‘Hogarth’ in Sunday Times 3 Dec. 26Rather than grizzle about the shortcomings of free settlement areas (and there are many), why not test the new procedure to the limit by flooding the board with applications?
1990 Weekly Mail 9 Mar. 12Planning Minister Hernus Kriel’s suggestion last week that entire cities should become Free Settlement Areas, free of the Group Areas Act, was well publicised.
in apartheid legislation (especially in the phrases free settlement area and free trade area), open to all races for residential or trading purposes respectively.
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