We Now Demand!: The History of Women's Resistance to Pass Laws in South AfricaWitwatersrand University Press, 1993 - 184 pages An exploration of women's struggle against the South African Pass Laws, in existence long before the National Party's invention of apartheid in 1948. Wells's account concentrates on three specific cases - Bloemfontein in 1913, Potchefstroom in 1930 and Johannesburg between 1954 and 1958. |
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The Bloemfontein Milieu | 15 |
The Road to Passive Resistance in Bloemfontein | 32 |
The Impact of Womens Resistance on Urban Policy | 50 |
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