Include articles about the effectiveness of the new labour laws to assist farm labourers to improve their living and work conditions.

The LRC assisted the Makeleketla Civic Association in negotiations with the Town Council. A longstanding dispute existed between the two parties regarding rentals, service charges and non-delivery of service. The Makeleketla Civic Association embarked on a rent boycott; the council cut off water supplies, sanitation and refuse services were also halted, and summons issued to defaulters. The LRC intervention led to the establishment of a working group but agreement could not be reached on rental amounts. A meeting was then held with representatives of the Orange Free State Provincial Administration. This resulted in levels of payment being set and a moratorium being placed on legal action against past defaulters.

Include material about women farm workers, farm schools and the compilation of policies for farm workers. These include:

ANC:

Discussion document, On a policy on farm workers, draft, 7 April 1993, Farm workers policy workshop, 8-9 June 1992, Background documents, Centre for Rural Legal Studies, Stellenbosch.

Journal of African Studies:

Relying on kin, Ex-farmworkers' adaptation to life in Grahamstown, CW Manona, vol 50, no 1 and 2, 1990.

The long-averted clash, farm labour competition in the South African countryside, Jonathan Crush, 1993.

Western Cape farmers and the beginnings of Afrikaner Nationalism, 1870-1915, Herman Giliomee, vol 14, no 1, October 1987.

Lawyers for Human Rights:

Women on farms, A report on women farmworkers in the Western Cape, Sandra Hill Lanz, Pretoria, 1994.

University of the Orange Free State:

Investigation into elements of the socio-economic conditions of farm workers in the Bloemfontein agricultural district, 1988, EP Beukes and L Botes.

University of Pretoria:

Economic considerations for a policy on farm labour in commercial agriculture, Johan van Zijl and Johan Kirsten, 1990.

University of Stellenbosch:

Farm schools in the western Cape, A different type of bitterness, Paper to be presented to the Conference on Economic Change, Social Conflict and Education in South Africa, Essex, 29-31 March 1989, JF deV Graaf, Department of Sociology, January 1989.

University of the Witwatersrand, Farmworkers Research and Resource Project:

Conditions of farmworkers in South Africa, report for the ILO, March 1992.

University of York, Centre for Southern African Studies, The Southern African Economy after Apartheid Conference, 29 September2 October 1986, papers:

Alternative urbanisation strategies in South Africa, A critical evaluation, Doug Hindson.

Land ownership and the prospects for land reform in the Transvaal, A preliminary view, Alan Mabin.

Land use and the community, A case study, Abednego Mvelase, Environment and Development Agency.

United Nations Centre Against Apartheid, Department of Political and Security, Council Affairs:

Apartheid as a collective form of slavery, Exploitation of black farmworkers in South Africa, Notes and documents, November 1980.

David Cooper:

Ownership and control of agriculture in South Africa.

Adele Gordan:

Women, work and education on peri-urban smallholdings, Behind the Barriers, no 18, 1993.

Other:

Stichting Uitgeverij Manifest, Spil, Kritisch tweemaandelijks tijdschrift over landbouw en platteland, aflevering 69-70, June 1988, Ruurlo.

On 1 May 1990, residents of Masilo Township embarked on a rent and services boycott and later water to the township was cut off. Masilo Civic Association sought the LRC's assistance to resolve the dispute. An agreement was reached with Orange Free State Provincial Administration that criminal proceedings against the residents would be withdrawn. Material includes statements by members of Masilo Civic Association, minutes of Town Council meetings, minutes of meetings between Masilo Civic Association and the Town Council and copies of an agreement between Masilo Town Council and Civic Association.

The LRC was involved with discussions with the Phiritonia Town Council and the Civic Association regarding services. There were also negotiations regarding non-payment of services bills and meetings including the Congress of South African Students concerning the state of the schools. The Phiritonia Town Council was owed R70 000 and had instituted legal proceedings against defaulters and cut off the water supply. The material mostly consists of minutes of meetings, attendance registers, and lists of grievances in schools.

In 1990 Meloding Civic Association organised a rent and services boycott. Meloding Town Council cut off some of the essential services including water and instituted criminal charges. The LRC mediated between the Civic Association and the Town Council. The material includes, summons against the residents by Town Council, letters from Orange Free State Water Board, research materials, press releases, newspaper clippings, faxes from Eskom and minutes of Meloding Civic Association meetings.

The LRC acted for the Vosloorus Crisis Committee in a dispute with the Vosloorus Town Council. Residents embarked on boycotts because of poor services. The council cut water and electricity supplies. In January 1990, the LRC organised a march by 50000 residents; at its conclusion, a list of grievances was handed to the Vosloorus Town Council, which included educational matters, health matters, service charges, and a call for a commission of enquiry into the administration by the Town Council. Electoral matters were raised, since Vosloorus was divided along tribal lines. Political violence was also rife at the time, and press clippings relating to some of these incidents are included. In anticipation of a commission, many meetings were held to work out a framework for a submission to the commission. A letter dated 8 October 1990 records the Transvaal Provincial Administration's refusal to appoint a commission of enquiry. No indication of how the dispute was settled.

Subjects include working conditions on farms, the so-called dop system where wine or spirits was part of labourers' wages, and farm wages policy.

Include factsheets, pamphlets and journal articles about farm labour conditions.