Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… my parents £1 to 30s. a month. I worked in Kimberley for about three years, until 1932, without any increase in wages. … was "Work Life Hell and Still be Merry". They employed about forty women and we did, in fact, work like hell, but … my ignorance and confessed that I did not know much about the better type of dressmaking, but was terribly …