The Unlawful Organizations Act No 34 of 1960 (commenced 7 April 1960) allowed the apartheid government of South Africa to declare unlawful any organizations deemed to threaten public order or the safety of the public.

[1] The Indemnity Act that followed legislatively indemnified supporters of the apartheid regime from any wrongdoing connected to the massacre.

Defines the use of certain sections of Suppression of Communism Act, 1950 to apply to organisations proclaimed as unlawful.

However, the Internal Security Act contained similar provisions allowing the government to ban organizations.

The bans on the ANC, the PAC and other anti-apartheid groups were lifted in 1990 at the start of the negotiations to end apartheid.