UNEMPLOYED AND POVERTY IN SOUTH AFRICA.
Sin, Permit nip, (ilirousli tho medium of your esteemed journal, to ventilate matters regarding Die above problem. As a meehanic, I venture to assert that; trade is extremely Thousands of houses,'shops, stores, and offices are empty in Capetown and its suburbs. There nro plenty of sellers but very few buyers at anything like a dcwtll. price, and the value of property has fallen 50 percent, all round, and rents' have roiio down some 30 per cent. Money is [rightfully tight, and bankruptcies are frefiucnt. Hurglnries and ot.her crimes arc
very rife, destitution and poverty aro very 1 acute, and the labour market is glutted J with men from all trades and professions. * Government relief works aro in force, and E have been for tho last three- years, and ~~ f there is no sign of trado improving. There has been a very largo exodus of Britishers and others to other pari.i of tho world, including Australia, and the exodus continues weekly. All Ihoso who can manago to clear out arc tired of living in a fool's paradise, and everybody is bitterly complaining of the stale of trado from Capetown to the Zambesi.—l am. etc., January 30. Destitute.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13846, 8 March 1907, Page 7
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