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...South African government requires blacks over 16 to carry this 20-page passbook at all times. Polaroid, through their distributors Frank and Hirsen, supplies the necessary photographs...
...passbook is a 20-page book which every black South African must carry on his person at all times, and which must be surrendered to any white policeman on demand. The book must be signed by the bearer's employer every month, and kept up to date with tax payments, residence permits, and personal information. Polaroid equipment, distributed in South Africa by Frank and Hirsch Limited was responsible for 20 per cent of all pictures taken for passbooks in 1970, according to Polaroid statistics...
...government tactics. Last week, South Africa's leading black clergyman, the Right Rev. Alpheus Zulu, Anglican Bishop of Zululand, was arrested at a church center outside Johannesburg and questioned at a police station for hours. He was finally charged with failure to have with him the passbook required of all blacks, but refused to pay a $7 fine and instead demanded the right to appear in court. Bishop Zulu, one of six presidents of the World Council of Churches, is a vocal opponent of apartheid. Other South African clergymen have lost their passports; they can also be detained...
Kenneth Williams and Caroline Hunter, members of the Polaroid Revolutionary Workers Movement (PRWM), told the protestors in a pre-demonstration planning session that Polaroid products were used by the South African military and in the South African government's passbook identification system...
According to South African law, blacks must carry identification papers and photographs. In 1960, South African police killed 69 people in anti-passbook demonstrations at Sharpeville, South Africa...