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| Title: | The African on the farm |
| Author: | Turok, B. |
| Year: | 1959 |
| Periodical: | Africa South |
| Volume: | 4 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pages: | 28-33 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | squatters forced labour |
| Abstract: | The pass laws nave become so vital to the steady supply of labour to the farms that agriculture as presently organized could face a very serious crisis where they ever to be abolished The system of forced labour in South Africa is exposed in chapters dealing with: The Contract System; Convict Labour; Long 'erm Prisoners; Farm Labour Supervision. Conclusion: A pressure group fielding great political power, with a vested interest in cheap forced labour, has grown up in the countryside. Its tentacles reach out into the prisons, the pass offices and labour bureaux seeking ever more efficient methods with to seize the African worker and snatch him from the cities. |