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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Pass Laws"”.
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Racial wage discrimination in South Africa before and after the first democratic election
… market was embodied in a number of policies (pass laws, occupational colour barring etc.). While such polices may be eliminated by the ANC government, it is apparent that the elimination of racial wage discrimination altogether will be a lengthy process. In the present paper, racial wage …
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Acting Up : how community organizations work with, around, and against city hall for housing justice in Chicago
… state. They act with the state by ordinance to pass laws and engage in electoral activity; around the state by convening to leverage relationships in the absence of formal legislation; and against the state by contesting to challenge centralized decision-making. Using community planning theory, …
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Improving Police and Criminal Court Data Transparency in the United States: A Case Study
… this paper recommends that legislators pass laws requiring police departments, district attorneys, and courts to collect and publish data, and provide those organizations with the necessary funding to do so.
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The significance of space and setting : a critical analysis of selected South African fiction
… to Africans; the hardships brought about by the pass laws especially the introduction of the 'book of life' by Dr. Verwoerd. Chapter Two concentrates on Nadine Gordimer's novella Something Out There that points to European people's fear and anxiety originating from the inner self. The characters' …
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The upgrade of the public realm through architecture: Re-enforcing existing social practices and community connections in Wentworth, Durban
… in 1998, the lingering effects of the apartheid pass laws remain seared in my family tree. Remnants of apartheid resurface through the lifestyles of aunties and uncles (the elders) with their respective job titles, locations in previously racially segregated suburbs, multi-generational living in …
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Consumer opinions regarding a flammability standard for upholstered furniture
… generally responded that the government should pass laws to protect consumers or educate the public about the hazards of flammable upholstered furniture. Although most respondents did not feel it was consumers' responsibility to protect themselves against flammable upholstered furniture, most …
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The effect of corruption on the 'available resources' for the right to housing as espoused by the Constitution of South Africa
… public officials, including management, who by-pass laws that govern public finance. This behaviour has been pervasive in the human settlement programme since 2007 when the SIU embarked on its proclamation to investigate corruption in the social housing programme. Exacerbating the abuse of …
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A critical analysis of the legal and institutional frameworks for the realisation of the rights of persons with disabilities in Zimbabwe
… be reminded to delete from the statute books all laws which view disability as a medical problem and instead, pass laws which are in line with the human rights-based approach which is a more enlightened, realistic and people-centred approach to disability. No time to play but plenty of time to …
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Sports, festivals and popular politics : aspects of the social and popular culture in Langa township, 1945-70
… institutions of oppression, such as the pass laws.
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The Federation of South African Women and the Black Sash : constraining and contestatory discourses about women in politics, 1954-1958
… in the demonstrations against the extension of pass laws to African women by the Federation of South African Women [FSAW] and the campaign against the Senate Bill by liberal white women of the Black Sash. What they had in common is that both groups of women organised their action into separate …
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Domestic service : changing relations of class domination 1841-1948 : a focus on Cape Town
… and this eventually led to extensions of pass laws after 1948. An attempt was made to elaborate on how domestic workers experienced their oppression (racist and sexist attitudes of employers were a part) and to draw a link between class and sex oppression. By the nature of the close …
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African trade unions : - labour ideology - industrial and commercial workers' union of Africa
… control its movements at the urban level. The Pass Laws and urban regulations, statutorily sanctioned by the Urban Areas Act of 1923, nurtured a proletarian class, hampered not only in its ability to live where it chose, but in its very ability to sell its labour power. The effect which these …
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Harbour policing : a criminological investigation
… Convention of 1982, as no Parliament exists to pass laws pertaining to the sea. It appears from this investigation that maritime fraud, theft of cargoes on the open sea, piracy and the illegal sinking of ships, oil pollution, etc. are matters of great concern for harbour policing. Functional …
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Pondoks, houses, and hostels : a history of Nyanga 1946-1970, with a special focus on housing
… theme is the differential impact of apartheid laws on African women. I outline the laws that applied to urban African women and describe the actual process by which they were expelled from the Cape Peninsula. Arising from this, the changing nature and scope of women's demonstrations in Nyanga …
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The implications of the abolition of influx control legislation in the Western Cape
… with formal influx control legislation, 'the pass laws'; and, secondly and more broadly, through definitions which embrace all methods of control over African urbanisation and associated labour mobility. This thesis argues that, in the macro domain, while influx control in its narrow sense has …
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Collaboration and Conflict in Transnationally-Dispersed Zimbabwean Families
… and elders, to acquire important documents like passports, and to prepare for an eventual return home. Following from performative and relational theorizations of kinship, this dissertation argues that collaborative projects are crucibles in which families are forged and reconfigured.</p> <p>This …
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The making of an African working class: Port Elizabeth 1925-1963
… and their struggle against the extension of pass laws is highlighted, and it is posited that a working class movement developed in this period. Chapter 6 analyses the application of influx control in Port Elizabeth in the 1950's, and the conflict of interests over the implementation of the …
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Essays on infrastructure, trade, and politics in Developing Countries
… in congestion comes from a recent wave of passenger trains which were planned according to certain rigid rules, making it possible to identify the costs the additional traffic imposes on firms using the railways to ship goods. In estimating this "congestion externality", the empirical …
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Three Essays on U.S. Electricity Policy
… climate goals, the best strategy to adopt is to pass laws that are both geographically targeted and adaptable to shifting consortiums.</p>