This act made it a criminal offense for a non-white student to register at a formerly open university without the written permission of the Minister of Internal Affairs.

[2] The emphasis now was also to separate the non-whites, classifying them to universities based on certain ethnic groups.

[1][2] By 1974, the legislation had achieved what it had intended and only 2% of students registered in the country were attending a university that was not of their own ethnicity.

[2][3] In the urban areas of South Africa proper, further Black higher educational institutions were opened to cater for the increasing population such as the Medical University of South Africa outside Pretoria in 1976 and the Vista University in Soweto in 1983.

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