SCANDALOUS EXPLOITATION OF NATIVES ON NATAL MINES.

1 leaf printed on both sides, address on the verso reads – P.O. Kalabas farm, Dannhauser Natal 1st May 1936 - housed in a blue leather folder, a very good copy.

There were many segregation and discrimination laws such as the Pass Laws and Native Urban Areas Act of 1923, the Native Service Contract of 1932, Representation of Native Act of 1936 and the Group Areas Act. The 1936 Native Trust and Land Act also dealt with the important issue of the control and the direction of African labour. Through these legislations, Africans were made available as labour power when it was required by the various sectors of the "white" economy.

Independent and self-supporting peasants were transformed into tenant farmers, squatters and migrant labourers on the settlers' farms or pushed into the mines and cities in search of work through the land alienation process. The passage of these Acts not only dispossessed Africans of their land and segregated them but also forbade them to emigrate from the country in order to drive them by force to the mining centres. http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/creation-native-reserves-and-migratory-labour-system-south-african-mines