"You have to remember they're unproductive".

Whites Portland Cement pays hundreds of its African workers at its Lichtenberg Plant wages of just over $6 a week. Mr Brian Harvey, a process control engineer who emigrated from England over a year ago to work for Whites, said he was shocked when he saw how the company treated its African employees. "They treat the Bantu workers like machines — in fact, machines are better looked after" he said. "They're getting their profits and they just couldn't give a damn how the Bantu live".

llloyo Sugar Estates pays its 3,000 contract workers from the Transkei approximately 58c a day which, together with overtime and bonuses, brings average wages to about $1.10 a day. Air Commodore E. J. Morris, llloyo's personnel manager, said: "This is not magnificent, but you have to remember these Bantu are mostly illiterate. And they are unproductive at first; we have to build them up. At home they just lie around and have a good time". Both Whites and llloyo feed and house their workers free. Many companies claim that these fringe benefits make up for the low wages. The true value of the "extras" can be gauged from the fact that Whites pay an extra $1.50 a week to workers who live with their wives outside the Lichtenberg compound.