Pass Laws

User icon Heather Dray
11 August 2023
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Research for HIS 335 Africa in the Modern World class project.



Villon Films · 1993 English

This two-part series examines the role of cinema in both supporting and attacking apartheid. It questions Hollywood’s commitment to racial stereo types and reluctance to depict black heroes. Almost from …



University of the Witwatersrand English

A woman, who is a domestic worker, at South African Domestic Workers' Association (SADWA). She had 'absconded' written over her pass book, which every black person is forced to carry, …




Villon Films · 1977 English

History of Afrikaner nationalism. In their quest for land in southern Africa, the Boer people fought off the African inhabitants of the land they were invading from a circle of …


Africa Media Online

DM2000030625:SAED:POLITICS:SEP1956 - Anti-Pass Campaign - As part of the Anti-Pass Campaign, on August 9, 1956, 20 000 women of all races, some with babies on their backs, from the cities …


SU: Stellenbosch University · 26 June 1992 Afrikaans

Vrye Weekblad was an independent Afrikaans progressive anti-apartheid weekly newspaper published between 1988 and 1994.


Africa Media Online

June 26, 1957. Protest Day Prayers. Part of the crowd of nearly 5000 who gathered at a prayer meeting at the end of a day of protest against apartheid and …