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 …


SU: Stellenbosch University · 26 September 1985

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


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

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 …


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 …


Africa Media Online

A somber atmosphere prevails as an endless row of coffins bears testimony to the brutality of the events of 21 March1960. Sixty-nine people, including eight women and ten children, were …


Africa Media Online

GW1826, South Africa, Johannesburg: Poster- anti apartheid, struggle days , Abolish Pass laws - Communist Party. workers Graeme Williams/South


Africa Media Online

c. 1980. Men queue for passes at Albert Street Pass Office in Johannesburg. Photo by Africamera. © Times Media


SU: Stellenbosch University · 1 May 2005 English

Article on Helen Suzman.


SU: Stellenbosch University · 6 September 1983 English

Article for Squire Magazine regarding paradoxes built into our constitutional future.


SU: Stellenbosch University · 28 April 1986 English

The abolition of the “Pass laws”; influx control; Separate Development policy.


UCT: University of Cape Town

Joyce Mohlatsane's little daughter comforts her grieving mother, while praying by the grave of her PAC (Pan African Congress) father who was killed in the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, when police …


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 September 1992 English

A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the MSc in Urban Planning (Housing in Development), submitted to the University College, London (Development Unit). The aim of this dissertation is an …