Die trekarbeider: sy korns na die stad, sy woonsituasie en die toekorns van die trekarbeiderstelsel

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Abstract The migrant labourer: his arrival In the city, his housing situation and the future of the migratory labour system. The origin of the migratory labour system In South Africa Is Intimately linked with the urbanization process — a process set in motion by the discovery of gold and diamonds In the previous century and expanded by Industrialization duro ing the present one. Migrant labourers live mostly In compounds, singly, this being the reason for the delay — by at least three decades — of large scale urbanizatlon. It was only with the coming of the women to the city that urbanization acquired a new dimension. Improved housing for the migrant labourer In White areas fits Into the broader structure of housing schemes for low income groups, and this Is where the private sector In particular will have to lend the government Its support. The future of the migratory labour system should be seen within the framework of an urbanization strategy. Such a strategy will have to provide for a more equal distr...