Only three-days after the 6 500 Sasol workers were sacked for the their role in the November stay-away, scabs were being bused in from the homelands by American multinational, Fluor Corporation.
Archive record
Apartheid runs on Fluor power

- Origin date
- August 1984
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Apartheid runs on Fluor power. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/R-0107029
South African History Online (2016) 'Apartheid runs on Fluor power', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/R-0107029 (Accessed: 27 July 2026).
South African History Online, Apartheid runs on Fluor power [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/R-0107029, (accessed 27 July 2026).
"Apartheid runs on Fluor power." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/R-0107029. Accessed 27 July 2026.
South African History Online. "Apartheid runs on Fluor power." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/ss/ref/R-0107029.
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