CONVICTS HIRED OUT TO FARMERS BY SOUTH AFRICAN GAOL
JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 2 (Rec. 10.30 a.m.). —South Africa has a gaol which hires out its convicts at one shilling and ninepence a prisoner per day. The gaol, at Leslie, in Eastern Transvaal, was built by the “Leslie Farmers’ Association Labour Supply Company”—a non-profit, organisation —to accommodate 300 African prisoners. The 50 shareholders in the company will be allocated convict labour in accordance with the number of shares held. The Minister of Justice Mr C. R. Swart, today opened the project and congratulated the farmers on the “model prison.” He said he would continue his policy of supplying convict labour for farms. Persistent attacks on this system were malicious, ill-informed and mischievous, he declared.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 September 1949, Page 5
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