Women’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… A woman describes this struggle in a Drum article in 1959. She says, ‘ We do not get enough food. Our husbands pay … in taxes. The employers do not pay them anything ’ (Drum, 1959). Women were then faced with the burden of taking care … often underpaid and mistreated. In fact in September of 1959, a conference was held to discuss the hardships and …