Sixty thousand black men were employed in 1912 as domestic servants on the Witwatersrand. Most white women disdained this 'Kaffir work' and in Johannesburg, there were less than 5 000 black women. Thus black men performed ...

This paper is premised on an empirical study of administrative policies towards black women on the Rand in the 1920s and Thirties, presented as ‘Popular Representations of Black Women on the Rand and their Impact on the ...