HIST 382 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Pan Africanist Congress Of Azania, Pass Laws
27 Feb 2019
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One of the main goals of apartheid was to control the movement of africans into urban areas. The state considered urban areas to be fundamentally a white space. The plan of influx control was a draconian system of pass law enforcement. The national party government adopted the name pass. Act which was a variety of pass controls in one document. It also said that african women, for the first time, would have to carry passes. Women organized the opposition to pass laws in the. 1950s and said that not only were the pass laws unfair but the requirement for females to carry them affected their dignity and roles as mothers. After the government said that women were to carry passes starting in 1956, the african national congress. Women"s league and the federation of south african. Women organized a march of 20,000 women to deliver a petition with 100,000 signatures to the prime minister in pretoria.
