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...lowest rate was offered by a Pasadena savings and loan. If the salesman had $2,000 or more in a savings account, he could borrow on his passbook and pay 1 % more in interest on his loan than he received in interest on his savings. The high-end 22% rate was quoted by a finance company in Los Angeles. Some rates in between...
...heavily on black labor (90% of total employment in both agriculture and mining, 68% in service industries). But because of the slump, black unemployment is approaching 2 million. Even the Afrikaans press is calling for reform, attacking the tough pass laws (requiring every black over 16 to carry a passbook at all times) as "unjust humiliation." In the meantime, however, South Africans have taken out more than 200,000 new firearms licenses in the past year, bringing the total to nearly 1.2 million for the 4.3 million whites. "If I had them," boasts a Johannesburg gunsmith, "I could sell...
Window Fall. Ray was a bungling burglar. In his first known job, he dropped his savings-account passbook and Army discharge notice in the Los Angeles cafeteria he had broken into. Chased on foot by police after robbing a Chicago cab driver, he fell through the basement window of a house. In a dry-cleaner burglary in East Alton, he was surprised re-entering the place for more loot by cops who had noticed the window ajar. After stealing postal money orders in Illinois with a friend, he left a trail of poorly forged cashed orders and was caught. During...
...that its International Sales `Department had sold 65 identity systems and comparable film to the police regime. PRWM's research further disclosed that Polaroid had begun sales for the apartheid program in 1950 with the passing of the Population Registration Act, which required Africans to carry the 90 page passbook at all times (as well as requiring whites, coloreds and Asians to possess race-identity cards...
...issues that PWRM raised in 1970 remain. South Africa is a police regime that has by law excluded the indigenous people of its land from the basics of survival. The average arrest rate of Africans for passbook violations is over 3,000 per day; the violator is subject to fail, fines, and/or whipping with no trial. The average monthly wage for an African is 7 rand ($9.80). South Africa has the world's largest hanging rate, with 118 executed in 1968 alone. The passbook has been called the pillar of apartheid, the main tool with which the white-ruling clique...