 This stemmed from the “efforts to use the pass system to balance white needs for security and labor”, while also creating laws that would allow for the control of the “African employment, housing, access to land, and citizenship”.Due to these laws, “over 17,745,000 Africans have been arrested or prosecuted” between 1916 and 1984.The policing of Africans has allowed for the whites to maintain dominance over the black population for the greater part of the 20th century.