Pass Laws

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AS level History Mindmap am Pass Laws, erstellt von Niamh Clayden am 23/04/2017.
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Pass Laws
  1. Abolition of Passes and Co-Ordination of Documents Act on 1952
    1. Focus on reducing African migration to the cities Influx control
      1. Pass laws failed to keep Africans out of the cities
        1. The African urban population rose from 1.8 million in 1946 to 3.5 million in 1960
          1. The Dompas became the most despised symbol of apartheid
        2. Wanted to protect whites from cheap, black labour
          1. Protect people from black people protesting
            1. Protect white people from crime
            2. Law would make all black S.A students over 16 carry a pass book, known as a dompas, everywhere at all times
              1. Illegal to be without a Pass = penalty, arrest and jail
              2. This forced Black South Africans to carry a range of documents including : a photograph, place of birth, employment records, tax payments and criminal records, and enabled the gov. to further restrict their movement.
                1. In the employment records section was reports from the employer
                  1. If a worker displeased their employer and in turn declined to endorse the book for the pertinent time period.
                2. Natives (Prohibition of Interdicts) Act of 1956 - meant that people couldn't legally object to the removal of black people
                  1. Urban Areas Act (1952) - gave urban rights to a minority of African people who had been born in town, worked for 10 years or lived there for 15 years; these rights were extended to their children
                    1. According to the Pass Law, gov. officials possessed the power to expel the worker from the area by adverse (negative) endorsement in the passbook
                      1. This technique was known as 'endorsing out' and could be carried out at any time and for any reason.
                      2. Pass laws were viciously policed & these measures were deeply resented by African people
                        1. Were frequently stopped & searched in the streets and in their houses
                          1. Passes caused abrasive encounters with the police on a daily basis
                          2. In 1956 - reference books were extended to women
                            1. Those who had rights to stay in the city were victims of constant harassment
                            2. Convictions under the pass laws increased from 164,324 in 1952, to 384,497 in 1962
                              1. In these years, about 3 million people turned into criminals
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