Pass Laws

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



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 · 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 …



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 …




Apartheid (Afrikaans: [aˈpartɦɛit]; transl. "separateness", lit. "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early …


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 …


SU: Stellenbosch University · 26 September 1985

Press conference held at Genève entitled, 'Citizenship and pass laws'.