Special Report Transcript Episode 80, Section 6, Time 41:50

Pass laws denied black South Africans the right of citizenship. They were aliens in their own country. Pass law arrests gave millions of South Africans a criminal record, criminals for simply not having a valid pass to be in a certain place at a certain time in the country of their birth. Black South Africans were hunted, harassed, fined, imprisoned and ultimately deported to so-called ethnic homelands. Carrying a pass became a way of life; having a valid permit a means of survival.

Notes: Labourers arrive in town; Pass arrests

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