- ZA HPRA A3440-B-B1-B1.1-B1.1.18
- Unidad documental simple
- 1967
Johannesburg, Golden city, built by African labor and wealth of gold extracted from the earth.
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Johannesburg, Golden city, built by African labor and wealth of gold extracted from the earth.
As old group leaves, new one arrives, driven to mines by failing crops. Man with cane is signing on again despite wooden leg, result of mine accident.
Africans throng Johannesburg station platform
Africans throng Johannesburg station platform during late afternoon rush hour.
With no room inside train, some ride between cars.
A woman carries a baby on her back.
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.
Dogs are well tended by black servant, and well fed.
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."
Living in her "kaya" out back, servant must be on call six days out of seven and seven nights out of seven.
She lives a lonely life apart from her family. In white suburbs there are no recreation centers open t black servants.