- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.2-B1.2.1
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- 1967
Handcuffed blacks were arrested for being in white area illegally
Handcuffed blacks were arrested for being in white area illegally
During a "swoop", police are everywhere, checking passes
Young boy is stopped for his pass as white plainclothesman looks on. Checks go on in the townships, too.
During a "swoop", police are everywhere, checking passes
A student who said he was going to fetch his textbook is pulled in. To prove he was still in school he showed his fountain pen and ink-stained fingers. But that was not enough; in long pants he looked older than sixteen.
Police check passes for employer's signature, proof that taxes are paid, and legality of presence in white area.
White policeman oversees check of one man's documents, while another, who said he forgot his pass, stands by handcuffed.
Sometimes check broadens into search of a man's person and belongings.
Every morning, police trucks from all over the city and surrounding townships converge on Bantu Commissioner's court building and dump their loads of pass offenders to await trial.
These boys were caught trespassing in a white area.
Child's home, in area declared a "black spot", has been destroyed.
African township is bulldozed out of existence to make way for white expansion. Government trucks will move residents and their few possessions to matchbox houses in new locations, usually in remote areas, perhaps not even named n map. Even t live there, families must qualify. People at right did not, and thus have not only had their homes razed, but have nowhere to go.