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1828. Ordinance No 49

Under the provisions of this ordinance, "prospective black immigrants were to be granted passes for the sole purpose of seeking work. All employment agreements for more than a month were to be registered as contracts, and no employer was allowed to coerce a worker into entering his employ" (Peires 1989: 486). Thus "a system of passes and short-term labour contracts" (Elphick & Malherbe 1989: 47) was adopted for the so-called 'Native Foreigners' (see also Crais 1992: 194).

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