trekpass

English

Alternative forms

• 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[1]:

     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.

Anagrams

• sparkest