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Restrictions placed on black people by South Africa's Pass Laws
The ways in which the passbook was used to segregate black Africans under apartheid are set out with great power and emotion, as are the reactions to this hated piece of bureaucracy. Passbooks are compared to the yellow stars Jews were forced to wear in Nazi Germany. Footage taken from People's Century, 20 October 1996, and Sharpeville: A Model Township, 17 March 1990.
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