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… Reverend Abram Mabula. 1911 The Union parliament enacts laws that widen “the racial divide”. This includes the Black … with others organized and participated in numerous anti pass campaigns spearheaded by women.   July, The Universal … Manye Maxeke is arrested along with 800 women on an anti-pass march to the town hall. A SANNC delegation which is made …

… to mount a mass action against the passing of six unjust laws. The six laws were; Pass Laws, Population Registration Act, Suppression of … Action Database , ‘South Africans disobey apartheid laws (Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign), 1952-1953’ , [online], available at …

… pupil in school, she matriculated with a first-class pass and left home when she was just 16 years old. After …

… R24 or 60 days in prison for breaking the municipal by-laws. The young man was charged on 29 counts for resisting … guilty on 12 counts and not guilty on 17. Too many wayward laws were passed in South Africa by the apartheid government, including Group Areas Act, Immorality Act, Pass Laws and many others. Under the provisions of the Group …

… announces, that it will embark on a campaign against the pass laws from Monday, the 21st March. March 21, The bloodiest … in an effort to disrupt the wave of protests against the pass laws. March 27, The Commissioner of Police announces …

… Justice; Detention and trials under security laws; Guerrillas and movements-in-exile; Foreign affairs; … Group areas and hoiusing; Urban Bantu administration; Pass laws; General matters; African homelands; Employment; …

… fighting for. However this stigma did not remain, as the Pass laws  in that late 1950s became severely enforced and the … to Black Sash member Mary Burton  who joined in 1963, the ‘pass laws’ were ”¦ sections of the urban areas act which …

… Some 8 000 Blacks are arrested for defying apartheid laws and regulations and the African National Congress (ANC) … front to oppose the National Party's discriminatory laws such as the Group Areas Act. Sam Khan and Yusuf Dadoo … court during Defiance Campaign, before being sentenced for pass offence. Dr. J. S. Moroka and Walter Sisulu send an …

… condemnation of the apartheid government's censorship laws. Badsha started working with the former Robben Island …

… or passes for African women until the 1950s. Although laws requiring such documents were enacted in 1952, the … in the Western Cape. According to the terms of the Native Laws Amendment Act, women with Section 10(1)(a), (b), or (c) … go to jail for a small technical offence -- not having a pass ? …

… by Africans due to influx control and legislation such as Pass Laws. …

… the Government has amended and supposedly relaxed the pass laws. …

… seekers from Southern Africa. 1880s The Boer Republics pass a number of laws that restrict the rights of Indian , Coloureds, Chinese …

… where the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) staged an anti-pass demonstration outside Sharpeville police station near … They handed over their passes demanding an end to the pass laws. However, the march ended in tragedy when the …

… was there during the 1959 Potato Boycott and the 1960 anti-pass campaign. Boy Adolphus Mvemve, courageous and selfless …

… Statement regarding the abolition of pass laws in attempt to find a peaceful solution to the country's …

… include forced removals and the expropriation of land, the pass laws, racial classification and related legislatives instead …

… in Bantu World giving his support to the newly formed anti-pass campaign. Xuma agrees to act as trustee of the anti-pass campaign. April:  Moses Kotane  and Xuma begin speaking … and Xuma addresses the conference stating that the pass laws were the ‘very foundation of economic exploitation’ …

… Conference on 10 March 1975, discussing: Work Permits, Pass Laws, labour disputes, arrests. …

… ensuing 150 years ”. In 1874, the Cape government passed laws that ensured residential areas in the Eastern Cape were … presence. After the conclusion of the South African War, laws to regulate Black settlement proceeded apace, especially … and the breakdown of tribal society. The Apartheid period Pass laws The Homelands The apartheid period saw the …

… Conference on 10 March 1975, discussing: Labour disputes, pass laws, housing, pensions, disability grants and legal …

… on 16 October 1973, discussing: Rorced Removals, Pass Laws, work permits, housing, Bantu Administration Boards, …

… of 1960 the PAC leadership launched a campaign against the pass laws. The aim was for a mass turning-in of passes at police … on 21 March, to be supported by a stay-at-home, until the pass laws were abolished. The campaign was hastily called, …