The Natives (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act of 1952, commonly known as the Pass Laws Act, repealed the many regional pass laws and instituted one nationwide pass law, which made it compulsory for all black South Africans over the age of 16 to carry the "passbook" at all times within white areas.

Pass law, law that required nonwhites in South Africa to carry documents authorizing their presence in restricted areas. Pass laws were among the main instruments of apartheid until the government ended the requirement to carry documentation in 1986. The pass law system arose out of a series of

2011年3月21日 · Pass laws in the Transvaal, or South African Republic, were intended to force Black people to settle in specific places in order to provide White farmers with a steady source of labour. This Boer Republic came into being in September 1853 and covered the area north of the Vaal River, later known as the Transvaal.

2018年3月19日 · The Pass Laws was a system used to control the movement of Black, Indian and Coloured people in South Africa. The pass said which areas a person was allowed to move through or be in and if a person was found outside of these areas they would be arrested.

2020年12月10日 · Under apartheid, pass laws were designed to control the movement of Black Africans, and they are considered one of the most grievous methods that the South African government used to support apartheid.

1986年5月12日 · CAPE TOWN — The South African government recently announced the abolition of the hated pass laws, the network of statutes and regulations that controlled the lives of millions of black South...

Pass laws were designed to control the movement of Africans under apartheid. These laws evolved from regulations imposed by the Dutch and British in the 18th and 19th-century slave economy of the Cape Colony.

2011年6月13日 · Passes were used to control the movement of African, Coloured and Indian people, ensuring the provision of a cheap labour source and enforcing the segregation of South African's along racial lines. Pass laws have been resisted in several significant instances.

The pass laws, restricting the physical movement of Africans to those areas endorsed in the pass books that they were required to carry, resulted in over 381,000 Africans being arrested in...

South Africa's notorious pass laws predate the coming to power of the National Party by almost 200 years: the notion of controlling black movement in the interests of social order, to prevent crime and over-