African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… encircle the areas where resistance is most effective. At present the passes are being introduced to women in the … to buy them. When the Reference Book Unit arrived, only 76 out of 4,000 Diokana women purchased the books - less than one in 50. Most of the 76 were school teachers, employees of the Government or wives …