Special Report Transcript Episode 33, Section 3, Time 28:33

But throughout the time of the pass laws there was always fierce resistance. It reached a peak in the Defiance Campaign of 1952 when people deliberately destroyed their passes and when a huge protest march of women took place to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. In the sixties it was again an anti-pass law campaign that led to the shooting of 69 people at Sharpeville and three at Langa in Cape Town. // By the eighties the arrests were not stopping, but the law was cracking under the strain. It was becoming too expensive to implement a law that people were defying more and more openly. In 1986 PW Botha repealed all pass and influx control laws. The tyranny of the dompas had finally come to an end.

Notes: Defiance campaign (film footage); Photo: Union Building march.; Sharpeville (aftermath of shooting); Anti-apartheid campaign (International); Photo: Burning of pass books