Migrant Labour System

Question 1

What were Black South Africans forced to do

Answer 1

To become migrant workers because this was the only way to earn money but still kept ties with their old way of life on their farms

Question 2

Terms for under the system

Answer 2

Workers would work for a contract period of three to twelve months and the go back home to their farms in the reserves

Question 3

What did the mine owners find out

Answer 3

If wages were too low migrant workers often chose not to return to work but to stay on their farms
So mining companies had to find eye to force rural Africans into migrant labour