As the story of Jonas Podumo has shown, migrant labour was already established in certain chiefdoms by the time diamonds and gold were discovered. The Pedi, the Tsonga and the southern Sotho were amongst those already engaged in migrant labour in the 1860s. In fact, the Pedi were already working as far afield as the Cape in the 1840s, and Natal in the 1850s ... READ MORE ABOUT LABOUR ON WORKING LIFE - Luli Callinicos
