Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… has meant to us poverty wages, most depressed incomes in rural areas, endemic unemployment, now most acute and severe, … confine able-bodied men to depressed overcrowded rural areas, the so-called Rehabilitation Schemes that deprive us of our stock and crowd us in so-called rural villages which will soon be slum areas. One cannot …