March 1957 - Gold's Chillun Gotta Work - Mr Drum probes

March 1957 - Gold's Chillun Gotta Work - Mr Drum probes conditions of kid labourers on sugar farms! Venkatas will lose 14 years pension. The company found no record. A penny farthing an hour; ten pence per day of eight hours. That is what young Indian kids earn on the Natal sugar fields, the fields on which the country's green gold grows. Hundreds of children workers are employed in the fields planting, fertilising and weeding sugar cane. Some of them are not yet ten years old. Yet they do a man sized job for a kid's pay. (Photograph by Ranjith Kally BAHA)

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Farms Kally Labourers Ranjith Venkatajalam Venkatajalams

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