Johannesburg the Segregated city
… population on the Rand was 64,664, of which only 7615 were women. After 1909, the mines began to obtain the bulk of … built at Wemmer. At this stage the ratio between men and women had dropped only minimally to 6:1. Therefore official … figures showed the presence of 117,700 men against 19,000 women, it is probable that there were far more black women in …