The dompas was used as a medium through which white government officials controlled and oppressed the black people of South Africa. Alpha Ngubane experienced apartheid first hand. Although inequality and toxicity from apartheid still exists in our society today, this man was a part of the struggle that fought for the freedom of black people and the establishment of the rainbow nation we experience now.Living under the unfair conditions and fear that Ngubane did, his dompas may not simply be a book full of stamps, signatures and contact details but also a book of painful memories, loss and trauma.The process of elections is very well communicated to most people and it is understandable that registering and having a legal identification card/book is necessary.However, if a citizen resorts to showing a dompas to prove citizenship, after losing their ID card, and is rejected from voting for a political party, which will also influence their quality of life, it is not fair.A dompas should be more proof that you are a citizen than any other form of personal identification document.It is understandable that allocating identification cards to every citizen of the country is a means of ensuring who they are and that they are, in fact, a citizen; but not everyone can afford to buy these cards and wait in extremely long queues at Home Affairs to receive one.I guess if you don't have an ID but rather a dompas, you're not a South African, you don't live in this country and you have no right in deciding who controls so many important aspects of your life.- Nina Dreyer..