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	Laws/effects of apartheid
		The dompas was similar to a passport, but it contained more pages filled with more extensive information than a normal passport.
		Within the pages of an individual's dompas was their fingerprints, photograph, personal details of employment, permission from the government to be in a particular part of the country, qualifications to work or seek work in the area, and an employer's reports on worker performance and behavior.
		Forgetting to carry the dompas, misplacing it, or having it stolen rendered one liable to arrest and imprisonment.
	home.snu.edu /~dwilliam/f97projects/apartheid/Laws.htm (1618 words)

	The Witness Group - Home (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For them to determine whether you were carrying a dompas they would look for a bulge on the left-hand side of the jacket.
		This was because the older version of the dompas was a very big document that would be visible when in the pocket.
		There was a belief that a police dog would smell anything one had in the pocket that was illegal, or when one had not paid tax or was not carrying a dompas.
	www.witness.co.za /content/2004_09/27612.htm (2175 words)

	Star: 'It was called dompas because blacks were said to be dumb'
		Maria van Vuuren has strong and sad recollections of her experiences at the Albert Street Pass Office, experiences which caused her to become homeless and addicted to alcohol and drugs.
		She was eventually sent to a boarding school in the city centre but during school holidays, while still in her early teens, she was frequently arrested and would spend the weekend at the Hillbrow Fort and would appear in court the following Monday, always paying a fine.
		It was called a dompas because fls were said to be dumb.
	www.thestar.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=3777400 (491 words)

	aeditorial
		A form of identity document, the hated dompas indicated where a person was and was not allowed to be.
		The government panicked, and the ANC and PAC were banned under the Suppression of Communism Act: bans which lasted until February 2, 1990, when FW de Klerk made his watershed speech.
		The right to protest; the right to move freely; the right to equality with others -- whites did not have to carry a dompas, although the government sometimes pretended they had to carry an identity book; the right to be treated with dignity.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2000/03/21/editoria/AEDITORI.HTM (470 words)

	Human rights and Sharpeville - SouthAfrica.info
		Joe Tlholoe, one of the country's most prolific journalists, who was a high school pupil at the time, wrote years later: "With hindsight, the story is simple.
		The PAC (Pan Africanist Congress), which was 16 days short of its first birthday, had called on African men to leave their pass books at home, go to the nearest police station and demand to be arrested for not carrying the dompas.
		Every indigenous African male above the age of 16 had to carry the dompas on his person day and night and produce it on demand by the police.
	www.southafrica.info /ess_info/sa_glance/history/sharpeville.htm (1259 words)

	Sharpeville Massacre -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The confrontation occurred in the (An administrative division of a county) township of (Click link for more info and facts about Sharpeville) Sharpeville, in what is now (Click link for more info and facts about Gauteng) Gauteng province.
		The (Click link for more info and facts about African National Congress) African National Congress (ANC) had decided to launch a campaign against the pass laws, which required all fls to carry pass books (dompas) at all times.
		The protests were to begin on March 31, 1960.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/sharpeville_massacre.htm (591 words)

	Fault Lines
		All fl people were required to carry a dompas, which stated where they were permitted to live.
		Blacks must begin carrying a dompas at age sixteen, and teenagers were routinely stopped to ascertain their age.
		If they didn't have a dompas, they would be arrested and held until their parents arrived with a birth certificate to prove they didn't need a pass.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/g/goodman-fault.html (5855 words)

	Dompas: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati
		Dompas: Blogs, Photos, Videos and more on Technorati
		I am not comfortable at the comfort zone, thus I have gone to spaces and places no man ought, should, and could.
		Blog posts tagged Dompas per day for the past 30 days.
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	SHAMEFUL FILIBUSTER (Site not responding. Last check: )
		They were forced to carry the hated badge of their subjugation, the dompas and later the dompas plus their designated Bantustan identification.
		The focal point of the struggle for freedom in South Africa became a struggle for a common South African citizenship and a common South African Identity.
		In 1986 the mass democratic movement led by the UDF and Cosatu gave P W Botha six months to abolish the dompas and establish in its place a common Identity document applicable to all South Africans, whether African, Indian, Coloured and White, resident in urban areas or the so called independent Bantustans.
	www.anc.org.za /elections/articles/filibuster.html (1411 words)

	Missing 'dompas' cripples gran: South Africa: News: News24
		This is why the illiterate grandmother has never received a state pension.
		"I lost my 'dompas', that is the problem," she explains, referring to the identity document she was required to carry under apartheid.
		This is also the reason they live off donated food, either from welfare workers or the occasional good-hearted neighbour.
	www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1424136,00.html (530 words)

	The Herald Online Columns
		Accompanied by their boyfriends, they tried to avoid being caught for breaking the curfew which stipulated that no fl person should be found in a white area after 10pm without a “night pass” from their employer.
		Yes, in those days it was easy for a law-abiding fl to have a criminal record for failing to produce his dompas or night pass when demanded rudely by an overzealous policeman.
		At that time we boasted of three leading vocal groups in New Brighton — the Basin Blues, under Welcome Duru, the Keynotes, under the late Norman Ntshinga, and the Swing Time Slickers, under Gogi “Cutman” Kwatsha, who was known and feared for not hesitating to use a knife.
	www.theherald.co.za /colarc/town/mj020305.htm (813 words)

	Apartheid Pass Laws - Anti-pass campaigns in South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: )
		By then an estimated 15-20 million people had been arrested, fined, imprisoned or deported in terms of these laws since the beginning of the century.
		Anti-pass campaigns: For much of the first half of the 20th century, pass laws' were the main target of African protest, and various campaigns were mounted against the dompas (dom meaning 'stupid' in Afrikaans), which was seen as a humiliating badge of inferior status.
		In 1913, African women in the Orange Free State waged an extensive passive resistance campaign against a local requirement that they carry passes.
	about-south-africa.com /html/apartheid_pass_laws.html (698 words)

	MySpace.com - nikita dompas - - Jazz / Folk Rock / Jam Band - www.myspace.com/nikitadompas
		Born and raised in Jakarta on April 14th, 1981.Nikita Dompas began his serious guitar lesson at the age of 17 when he took his first jazz guitar lesson with Oele Patiselano (marvelous jazz guitarist in Indonesia) and later on with Ahmad Ananda in Jakarta.
		And by 25 (2006), Nikita earned his Bachelor Degree majoring in Performance from Insitut Musik Daya and continue his career as a permormer and also as an educator.
		Nikita Dompas has performed and recorded with various musicians and singers, including :
	profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=126139335 (845 words)

	SAPA - 05 Aug 96 - TRC HEARS OF 'NON-POLITICAL' SHARPEVILLE VICTIMS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Elderly Vaal Triangle township residents, who said they were ordinary citizens and not interested in politics, on Monday described to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Sebokeng their experiences during the Pan Africanist Congress anti-pass law campaign in Sharpeville on March 21, 1960.
		Two brothers, Lebitsa and David Ramokhoase, described how they were shot outside Sharpeville police station when police opened fire on township residents who had gathered there to protest against the hated "dompas".
		He had carried the "dompas" that everybody hated, because it was law and necessary for employment.
	www.doj.gov.za /trc/media/1996/9608/s960805e.htm (596 words)

	May Day photos from Palestine : IMC-SA (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The May Day leaflets, flags of Che Guevara, and the megaphone were quickly stashed under the chairs of women on the bus.
		One unlucky Palestinian had left his dompas ID at home.
		This meant a 3 hour wait with the soldiers on the side of the road while someone from his village went to bring it.
	southafrica.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=3810 (346 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On the day in question, the powerful members of our society, the women, took to the streets to protest against carrying of dompas.
		The struggle was not only about the carrying of dompas but the recognition of women as equal to men in the society, which is gender equality.
		In the private sphere, women were less likely to lead in decision making.
	www.nwpg.org.za /SafeLia/Admin/content/DOCS/09august2003speech.doc (561 words)

	Standard Bank Jazz
		As a child who had been near-crippled by illness in his youth, Ray earned money for the family by dancing in villages in the unusual, wobbly-legged way, for which he later became famous.
		Armed with only his beat up guitar, Ray spent time back and forth on the railroads between Nelspruit and Johannesburg, as in those days, fl south Africans found without a "dompas" (identity document which enabled the bearer to live in "white only" city), were sent back to their rural homeland.
		Persistent and ambitious, Ray finally evaded the authorities and got a short-lived "not for me" job as a mine policeman.
	www.joyofjazz.co.za /SBIC/Frontdoor_04_01/0,2366,6376149_6379392_0,00.html (820 words)

	District Six, South Africa - Wander the Planet .net
		The museum had an impressive collection of historical materials, photographs, paintings, physical remains like street signs, etc. - most were donated by former residents.
		We saw examples of the pass books (dompas or "dumb book" in Afrikaans) Blacks had to carry and the identification cards that whites, coloreds, and foreigners had to carry.
		To determine if you were Black or colored, they did the pencil test - they stuck a pencil in your hair and if you could shake it out, you were colored.
	www.wandertheplanet.net /SouthAfrica/districtsix.htm (612 words)

	March 21:Human Rights Day (Site not responding. Last check: )
		n 1952, the South African government introduced a law requiring all Africans to carry a dompas, a kind of identity document that controlled the movement of fl people within the country.
		The police enforced this law and regularly arrested people who could not produce their dompas when requested, or whose dompas was "not in order".
		At the height of apartheid, the South African Police arrested more than a million fl South Africans a year for breaking pass laws.
	www.sadtu.org.za /ev/Feb_2003_html/march21.html (1230 words)

	SABCnews.com - politics/the_parties (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Although some were critical of his beliefs, most praised his vision and fearlessness.
		In 1952 the then apartheid government introduced a law requiring all Africans to carry a dompas, an identity document that controlled the movement of fl people within the country.
		On March 21 1960, Sobukwe, the founding president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), led an anti pass-law protest, offering himself for arrest.
	www.sabcnews.com /politics/the_parties/0,2172,54054,00.html (388 words)

	DOMPAS TO DOORMAN
		President Thabo Mbeki's promised revamp of SA's old and restrictive immigration policies has begun.
		His latest moves should put an end to a dompas mindset that still dominates the bureaucracy's approach to the work force, long after influx control was abandoned in 1986 and seven years after the ANC came to power into 1994.
		The new stance on immigration was signalled in Mbeki's state-of-the-nation address last month and confirmed by a recent series of bold moves.
	www.queensu.ca /samp/Policy/dompas.htm (1476 words)

	LSE meeting [was: Re: "ID card plans 'criticised by MPs'"] (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Then again, South Africa acquired a particularly rigid set of identity laws and practices during the bad old days.
		People used to carry a `dompas' or `book of life' which contained not just your name, number and photo, but also your marriage license, driving license, gun license, residence permit, racial classification and so on.
		The idiocy of this, and the strange side-effects that propagated all through society, used to be a standard butt of humour for local and foreign writers alike.
	www.chiark.greenend.org.uk /pipermail/ukcrypto/2004-August/035369.html (320 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| sa news SA observes Human Rights Day (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The protest that led to the 69 deaths was part of a Pan Africanist Congress-organised disobedience campaign which encouraged fl people, who were forced to carry a type of internal passport, or "dompas" at all times, to discard the document and hand themselves over to police for arrest and prosecution.
		PAC leader Robert Sobukwe at the time said the protest was intended to be the first of a five-day, non-violent campaign by fl Africans to persuade the government to abolish the law, which earlier that year had extended the dompas to women as well.
		Sobukwe intended to overcrowd prisons, dry up labour and bring the economy to a halt.
	iafrica.com /news/sa/221379.htm (592 words)

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	New Therapist: The Write Stuff - Therapists who write
		Jonathan sits beside him with a hand-held, audio tape recorder, capturing the ancestral stories.
		The book also includes Lithuanian birth certificates, marriage certificates, Grandpa Ben's dompas, and other archival material.
		Whilst digging it all up, Jonathan thought, "wouldnít it be great to do this for a living?"
	www.newtherapist.com /couchfree4.html (2084 words)

	FusionXHost > Php / Html Problem (Site not responding. Last check: )
		You only need one unique name (for the class), not a unique name for each function.
		Dompas, I'm sorry to say but this is the second time where I find your post irrelevant to the topic, so says going of topic.
		And I hereby tell you, you should always stay on topic and make relevant posts.
	forums.fusionxhost.com /lofiversion/index.php/t6977.html (737 words)

	SABCnews.com - politics/elections (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Some people in Benoni on Gauteng's East Rand came with SMS messages, claiming this was proof that they were registered to vote.
		At Sekgosese in Limpopo, five people demanded to vote, presenting the old 'dompas' ID's issued by the apartheid government.
		The IEC says it is applying electoral laws strictly in these cases.
	www.sabcnews.com /politics/elections/0,2172,77926,00.html (140 words)

	IOL: Many still using 'book of life' and 'dompas'
		IOL: Many still using 'book of life' and 'dompas'
		Many still using 'book of life' and 'dompas'
		Two decades after the introduction of new IDs, there were South Africans who still carried old reference books, books of life and "dompasses", home affairs minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said on Friday.
	www.int.iol.co.za /index.php?click_id=13&art_id=vn20040612124854196C367583 (561 words)

	pension
		Skweyiya was speaking after spending much of yesterday in the eastern part of the province investigating reports that pension payouts were being delayed.
		"Most pensioners had the old Bantu ID book 'dompas' and it does not interface with computerised records."
		He said the distribution of pensions in the province was running for the second month and it was important that the problems were sorted out before it was too late.
	www.dispatch.co.za /2002/12/10/southafrica/PENSION.HTM (297 words)

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