Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner
… system. However, while each categories seems to have been present in the ranks of female from the early days of this … women were gradually freed. A second type of emigration, present from the late nineteenth century, was made up of … of female domestic labour. Women either refused to present themselves for such low-paying work or were …