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    Indentured brought craft skills to SA

    Nov 04, 2020 3 minutes
    1860 Heritage Centre
    Insiders and Outsiders: The Indian
    Working Class of Durban 1910
    –
    1990
    by Bill Freund

    A CLOSE reading of the Protector of Immigrants files suggests that 60% to 70% of the indentured workers who came to South Africa from 1860 to 1880 worked in the labour-intensive sugar-cane plantations.

    Plantation workers were often overworked – working for as many as 18 hours a day during the crushing and planting seasons.

    There is evidence in the Protector files to suggest that overwork, malnourishment and squalid living conditions formed the

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