Farm workers and the National Manpower Commission

Farm labour conditions are to be the subject of a National Manpower Commission investigation. But with the Minister of Manpower having given explicit assurances to fanners that their interests will not be tampered with, it is clear what improvements (if any) farmworkers can expect. This investigation, which is partly based on a number of interviews with farmworkers in the Piet Retief area of the South-Eastern Transvaal, shows that the conditions on the farms are notoriously bad. App., photogr.