28 of 1946; subsequently renamed the Asiatic Land Tenure Act, 1946, and also known as the "Ghetto Act") of South Africa sought to confine Asian ownership and occupation of land to certain clearly defined areas of towns.

[1] The Act deprived the Asian South Africans of communal representation and took away their fundamental and elementary right of land ownership and occupation.

It is called and regarded universally by Indian people as the "Ghetto Act".

[3] The act struck at the heart of Indian commercial and economic life.

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