6 February 1980
The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announced that the '72-hour curfew' will be lifted on a trial basis in Pretoria and Bloemfontein, as part of a plan to remove all restrictions. The ‘72-hour curfew’ imposed on visiting blacks was one of the most hated apartheid laws. This curfew formed an integral part of influx-control regulations that restricted black people’s movement. In his statement he said that the curfew requiring blacks to have a permit to stay more than 72 hours in an urban area would be dropped in Pretoria and Bloemfontein as an experiment.
References
Walker R. (1980) ‘2 S. African cities to try dropping a black curfew’, from The Christian Science Monitor, 8 February, [online], available at www.csmonitor.com (Accessed: 07 January 2013)|
O’Malley, P.‘1980’, from Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialog, [online], available at www.nelsonmandela.org