HISTORY 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Indygenat, Desertion, Hut Tax
21 Mar 2016
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Pass law regulate presence of blacks in urban and white south africa. Id card which took the form of a sort of book, info on your employment history. Allows a black person to be present or stay in the duration of the valid pass. Once pass expired (ie. bc end of job contract), needed to remove self from that urban place and return to rural area. Closely tied to the labor history of an individual and labor needs of the white community. In case of women, complicated bc most of the women or large prop housewives. Bc housewives, did not have labor contracts or jobs. Orange free state brings together the two africana republics transvaal and the orange free state. Brought together w/ cape colony, made the union of south africa in 1910. Orange free state different in that there was a smaller number of black individuals in area, not enough labor for white households.
