The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces the lifting of the '72-hour curfew'

Updated: 22 Aug 2019

The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces the lifting of the '72-hour curfew'

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.

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