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It is against the law for black servants t live under the same roof as their employers. In private home, servant would have separate little room in backyard. Newspapers are her carpet, fruit crates her chairs and table.
Entertaining friends is done outside garden walls, since employers do not want strange "boys" and "girls" on their premises.
Servants are given boysmeat, cheapest cuts available. Everything connected with eating is segregated: There are spoons, enamel plates and mugs, even cooking pots specified for use by servants only.
After working in modern kitchen, servant returns to her own, with no hope of making it any better.
Servant returns to her own room
After working all week in modern kitchen, servant returns t her own, with no hope of making it any better.
She lives a lonely life apart from her family. In white suburbs there are no recreation centers open t black servants.
Servants are not forbidden to love. Woman holding child said, "I love this child, though she'll grow up to treat me just like her mother does. Now she is innocent."
Two telephone booths with the signage: "Non-Europeans. Nie-Blankes" and "Blankes. Europeans"
"Huurmotor staanplek vir blankes. Taxi rank for Whites", showing taxis queuing with signs "Taxi White Persons"
Segregated entrance to ladies rest room
Uniformed white woman leaving a ladies rest room with signage reading "Europeans only. Slegs Blankes. Ladies rest room. Dames ruskamer"