Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Hester Cornelius (Translated from the Afrikaans) I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg District, Transvaal. … of my father. In 1930, at the age of twenty-two, I came to Johannesburg look for work. I worked for one year as a table … for our poverty and unemployment. Later, I returned to Johannesburg and found work. My sister Johanna and I shared a …