trekpass

English

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  • trek pass

Noun

trekpass (plural trekpasses)

  1. (South Africa, historical) A letter authorizing or requiring a non-white person to leave a certain area; an order of eviction or banishment.
    • 2002, Bakone Justice Moloto, Land Claims Court of South Africa case LCC 3/00:
      His resistance of the eviction attempts is said to have lasted from about 1952 when he was first served with a trekpass, to 1964 when he finally vacated.
    • 2015, Chris Jafta, Constitutional Court of South Africa Case CCT 231/14:
      This brought about untold suffering to those on whom the trekpass orders applied.

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