influx, noun

In historical contexts. rare. Elliptical for influx control. Also attributive.

1971 Drum Mar. 68What worries me is that I do not qualify to be in Johannesburg as I was born in Durban. Does influx also apply in marriage?

1973 Drum 22 Jan. 18Yet another victim of the Influx laws.

Elliptical for influx control. Also attributive.

Derivatives:: Hence (nonce) influx transitive verb, to give permission (to a Black person) to stay in an urban area.
1982 D. Tutu Voice of One 90The growing frustration with unemployment, the long queues to get ‘influxed’.

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