Special Report Transcript Episode 33, Section 3, Time 18:38

Let’s turn our attention now to another memory of our past that should not be lost. In the late 1700s the white settlers in South Africa forced slaves to carry identity books so they could control their movement. In some way or another pass books had existed since then, but when the National Party came to power in 1948 and formalized the ideology of apartheid they needed more efficient instruments to separate races and enforce white rule. The dompas was born. It ruled the lives of millions of black adults until 1986. It was the greatest single human rights violation in our past.

Notes: Max du Preez

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