- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.1
- Unidad documental simple
- 1967
Pensive tribesmen, newly recruited to mine labor, await processing and assignment.
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Pensive tribesmen, newly recruited to mine labor, await processing and assignment.
Barracks-like buildings are divided into starkly simple rooms with bunk space for twenty men. There are no closets or cupboards, so clothes and boots hang all over.
Kitchen helper dumps food on men's plates with shovel Diet is nyula, a vegetable mixture, and maize-meal porridge served twice a day.
Cardboard punched with holes and hung from the ceiling serves one man as holder for his spoons.
Miner sleeps on concrete slab, must supply own bedding.
Some, like man with penny whistle, pass time with musical instruments.
Man stares at snapshot of his wife on tribal reserve, whom he will not see for duration of his contract.
They leave with more than they brought with them: bicycles, foot lockers filled with junk clothing, blankets, other things bought at concession stores.
Johannesburg, Golden city, built by African labor and wealth of gold extracted from the earth.