this bleak and oppressive cation Lne erage household has to pay a onthly rent of about fll, an is is now being put up to fl7.
In 1977 the average income ta Soweto household was put £136 but per cent of the s than th had an than f75 a month - which cant that they were below the ficial subsistence level, and ble to suffer from malnutrion and the diseases it causes. Since then things have got orse as unemployment ounted to at least 20 per cent nong black workers.
A recent survev of three ease household income on found less than f80 a month and half of all households subsistence level. The rent increases will push this figure even higher.
Fortv thousand live an even harsher life - they are migrants' who have found legal jobs in the city but are classed by the government living in the rural 'homelands' They are therefore unable to bring their families them and have to live in ten vast barracks-like compounds.
cases conditions in the countrysides that migrant workers ignore the law and bring their families with Someone Sellin in a curtained-off corWith a week to go to South BRIAN SLOCOCK examines life for blacks in the giant concentration camp from which British companies are among the main beneficiaries laws and do still they except by birth.
city or tinuously continuously can qualify. Contract are classed as 'migrants' expire after a year.
Even if they many are) they take up a new contract. HOL Cons ucieu employment or residence even rights are Lape to The area's reserved for South Africa's 18.6m black people are marked black on the map - the total area is 13. 7 per cent of the country. South Africa's whites number 4. 3m ACCORDING to the of.
'homeland' belong to the Party while the large back This is supposed to justify and all the repressive policies their movement and freedoms have one elementary right - to actually live in the cities where they were born or have lived and worked for decades. However, since 1968 no black person has been able to acquire these rights Only someone born in the who has worked confor the same employer for ten years or lived legally in the city for 15 years farmland, official Since 1968 all black workers moving in from the countryside and are employed on contracts that meant to are then rehired by the same boss (as very must first go developed back to their 'homeland' and This is cultuluous slender living government has recently come up with a new gimmick of giv'homelands' independ'independence' for bits of South Africa totally dependent on the South Sort clizabet 400 Miles Areas heserved for Black ropulation f19/3 ployed, for example - they can deported back their da, One thing that the National leaders have insisted upon in this election campaign Is inal were will De no gong on the 'homelands' policy. So what is life like in these little pleasure In 1978 the South Africa government spent £363 on the education of every white child.
In the same year it spent £27 for every black child in school spots marked out by Botha and his colleagues as the 'homes' for 20m black people?
They are the bits of South African cities and industries. In 'independent' state, Ventwo-lniras or adull me. earn their living in this way; 82 per cent of the Venda's populadid pere lomen, children and peopl Only a fifth of the incom earned by Venda's inhabitants including food grown for family use came from any sort of work in Venda.
In 1975 the average income per family earned in the Venda was £13 a month; including the earnings of migrants the average family income was f52 a monin But migrants' incomes do all come back to their families. Forced to live apart from their families, sometimes ior years al a lime. migrant workers often spend much of their earnings in the city or even break off ties altogether.