Passbooks were used in South Africa under apartheid law. Every black person in South Africa was given a passbook at the age of sixteen; this record documented data on racial classification, name, sex, date of birth, residence, photo, marital status, drivers license, dates of departure from and return to the country, place of work or study, and fingerprints. Approved passbooks granted black South Africans the ability to work in "white areas;" individuals who could not produce their passbook or whose passbooks were not approved were subject to incarceration. Passbooks have now become a reminder of South Africa’s objectionable apartheid past. Students can examine passbooks, such as this one, in order to generate ideas concerning the pro-apartheid government’s attempts to document the whereabouts of black South Africans. Students can then raise and answer questions of the impact of the passbook system on the daily lives of black South Africans.