![Pass Office 80 Albert Street - Heritage Portal - 2011 Pass Office 80 Albert Street - Heritage Portal - 2011](https://www.theheritageportal.co.za/sites/default/files/styles/adaptive/public/80%20Albert%20Street%20blue%20plaque%20-%20Heritage%20Portal%20-%202011.jpeg?itok=z7Ou7hQO)
The Central Pass Office was an infamous checkpoint of the influx control system under apartheid. The “Dompas” which controlled the movement of African people was issued here. Denied a place in the city, many were ordered to leave Johannesburg. This building opened in 1954 as the Non-European Affairs Department and was greatly enlarged in the 1960s. Converted into a women’ hostel in 1994, it was re-named the Usindiso Women’s Shelter.
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80 Albert Street, Marshalltown
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Photographs of the Albert Street Pass Office (The Heritage Portal)