South African Go -
emmcnt "i propapnda
IIUIC� for " to q e a
South African con War
official in Yor bonly
after the tramplant per­
fonraed in 1968.
The . of type of
DId not be un­
any docton
ill emigrate to
South Africa 'th to
aainina more expel ietlCe and
expertise. edical conferences
in South Africa are still
tended by many delegates
from other countries and
South African medical experts
are ill invited to addfi. con­
ferences the orld er. This
contributes to a gen r pi­
ture of South A ica a
country in th forefront of
medicine.
Ho ever, if their propo-
anda i carefully scrutinized,
it will be found to be TY mis­
leading. Photographs re
carefully leered to give a fav­
orable impr sion of the
health acilit' for b . For
e amp , in a major boo
pub' bed in 1 fJ77 entitled The
Ht!Qllh of th People, there is
a fuU-p co our photograph
of an African patient on renal
dial is, U in th such
tr tmenr i readily availab e
or bl . In fact, such treat-
ment ' only available to 4
b per million of the pop­
ulation, compared ith 0 er
100 . hites per million of the
THE HEALTH
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�.�ATODAY
population� of the . h­
est in the oriel, and • ftpire
only � countri
uch ,U . ed
Stat ,and Switzatiod, and
dou the European
aver . H er, even this
type of misleadina informa­
tion ppears harmless in ron-
to uch outri untruths
that made by. South Afri­
can diplomat on BBC �
ion (12 December 1974) stat­
ing that U e have only. few
of malnutrition. h
A favourite ploy' never to
compare facilities available
for blac in South Africa
'th those a ailabl for i
hite population, but rather
to compare facilities for
bla in South Africa ith
tho of black here in
frica, often ju in ith
tati tic to dive th reader.
For examp e, in HeIlllh and
Healing, another South Afri­
can propaganda boo ,fJIURS
are given for the ratio of doc­
tors per population in South
Africa but these are flgW'eS
for race JI'OU combined. If
figures of the ratio of doctors
to population are taken for
the different race grou sepa­
rately, it will be found' that
there are (i er b doctors!
blac population than in any
of th African States men­
tioned, 'th the exception of
countri uch as Benin, Bur­
Volta-<:ountrics much poor­
er than South Africa.
I
of 1980
to re­
duce program co t food
stamp allotments are no
djusted for cost-of-food
incre only once a year
n Jan. 1. In past years,
allotmen were adjusted
e year, in January
and July.
Th itch 0 annual
rath r than mi-annual ad­
ju tm nt in food tamp
benefits cut food stamp
co by $133 million in
fi year 1980 d'
expec to
additiOIial $300 million in
year 19 1.
On Jan. 1 J the maximum
monthly food tamp be -
fit for family of four
ith no net income ill
incre from 209 to $233.
Co ucu E ct C ir
The Congre ional Bla Caucus recently elected
D .. deleg te alter Fauntroy a it chairman, c­
ceeding Rep. Cardi Collin (D-III.). There will be 18
bla in th next Congre compared to 16 in the last
Congre .
B te S er In Calif
In California, illi L. Brown Jr., San Francisco
Democrat w,a elected th rust I:) c spe er in the
O-member State mbly ith most of his votes
coming from Republicans.
Prin . . f Sued Ower Se nd ee 8·
The U'S. Equal Employment Opportunity Com­
mi 'on recently charged the Printing Industry of
etropolitan ashington, D.C., and 54 employer
who belong to this trade ciation with using dis­
criminatory recruitment and selection practice that
unla fully deprived women and blacks of equal
employment opportunitie and dversely affect their
status as employee .
r
early all food stamp
households will get le than
this amount, though
becau all 0 tmen ts are
reduced if families have
income. Currently food
tamp benefi erage 38
cents per person per meal.
Effective Jan. 1, maxi­
mum food tamp benefits
for house Ids with no
net income are: One per-
n hou hod - 70. Two
per It hou hold - 128,
Three pe on hou hold -
183, Four per n hou -
flo 233, Five person
hou ho - $2TI, Six
per n hou hold - 332,
Seven per n household
367, Eight per n hou
hold - 419.
For each additional
member over eight, dd
53 per month.
Also effective January 1,
deductions u d to calculate
net income for food stamp
hou hold will be updated
to reflect change in the
Consumer Price Index. The
standard d duction will in­
ere from 75 to $85.
In addition, the maximum
deduction a family rna
claim for exce shelter
costs and dependent care
ill rise from combined
total 90 to $ 115 . The
maximum deduction for
shelter and dependent care
cos has no been djusted
for 18 months. The in­
ere announced reflects
incre s over this e and
a half year period in th
cost of shelter, fuel and
utilities, .
•
ap
The city of Benton Har­
bor is preparing to s' n a
contract ith City Venture,
I inn_polls blsed profit
m ing firm who promises
the conomic r italizltion
of this city. The plrent
company Ind controlling
int r st behind City Ven­
tur is Control Dlta, a
computer giant who has 15
P rcent of the South Afri­
can comput r busin 55. In
I'ght of the connections
between City Venture and
apartheid South Africa (see
issue of Th Citizen) we
reprint for our � aders the
folio ing Associated Press
article on th plight of
domestic workers in South
Africa.
By Cynt . St en
JO SBURG
ell
miles
world s most prosperou
cities, but she's never b en
to the movies, eaten in a
restaurant or had a vaca-
tion.
Like most of South fri-
o ly, rs. 0 ghlat
orks a washerwoman,
scrubbing clothe in an
employer's bathtub or in a
backyard tub behind a typi­
cally gr cious hoo , com­
plete with tennis court,
pool and manicured garden.
any South African hom
do not have ashing
machines becau of the
cheap labor dra n from th
20 million blac majority.
"I gro children
by m If
JANUARY 7 -13, 1981 TH CITIZE
PAGE 3
month. r er
in the sample re ived
fo d daily but
en I die, I don't cent of the c
what will happen to as rati ned,
I think this every perc nt ate the same fo
as their employer ,
Sixty- 0 percent f the
or ers said they ere
provided . th a uniform by
their employer but it
not uncommon fo this
rve the employee'
Christmas p nt.
The
,
r
o ghlat,
wido who paid an
avera of eight dollar a
day. 'Once I ironed a
eddin dre ,but you n ed
time for that bi job.
In the evening e travels
by bus and commuter train
to he sp rtan three-room
hou a government-owned
d elling in the dusty to n­
ship uth e t of Johannes­
burg here more than a
million blac s live.
The hou is rrounded
by a fence with a padl eked
gate and barbed wire on
t p as a fegu d against
the crim that is rampant
in Soweto. like mo
10 So eto houses it ha no
th electricity hot ater or
indoor toil t. onthly
rental for such a hou is
the equivalen t of round
35.
Unlike rno t dom ti
orkers r. 0 ghlat has
never lived in the one-room
rvants' quarters attach d
to many white home be­
cau of her n.
'�en he as a child
he very clever ' she
ys. 'He would tell you
the thing that would happen
tomorro , like a itch­
doctor. But no th brain
s
•
ca's one million dome tic
workers, rs. okghlat
has little time or money
for such diversi s. The
white-minority g�vern-
ment' racial gregation
policie, known as apart­
he'd, ban her from nearly
all recreational faciliti
becau e is b lac .
, y heart is ore; there's . gone and he is sic in th
no hap pine . y tr ubles body,
are heavy and my life is
kno
crooked no ," says a him.
woman resigned to a future
day."
of drudgery and the care
of her younge child, rs. 0 ghlat prepare
Solomon, 24, ho i retard- dinner for Solomon and
her If, cleans until the
ed.
Six days a wee she hou is irnm cula te, and
1 d goe to bed by 9 p.m. On
rise 5 a.m., wrap p ai
blanket traditionally worn Sunday, e their
by th Sotho tribe around clothe. The routine is her
her print dre balances ho life.
b p tic tot bag on Servan ho "live in" wor er,
top of er knitted h t, are spared the c t and study,
and begin the journey to of commuting, but hour
her job. She is employed they are parated from that 34 percent of all
by hite families in .the th iT families. dome i intern
north su urbs of Johanne The governm nt forbid received one ee solid
bu ro, the economic capital the children of maids and or le each year.
·0 gardeners to live with them i rote that
of gold-rich South Africa.
in neighborhoods r rved the ommodation for re '-
en the commuter
for white. So unle th dential dome tic or er
trains are delayed, the nor-
mal journey of 0 minutes employer i prepared to ri frequently ualid bare and
can take up to four hour. a iff fine the children cramped and that only
She 0 ten ands the whol are raised by a grandmother three of the 175 dome ti
in a bl urban to nship in th SUIV h d cce
way, becau younger resi-
or in a tribal homeland. to a b thr m. Only one
dents of the blac town-
But there are other, smal- h d hot ater availabl f
ship of Soweto beat her to
ler hardship in a oci ty
the ats. where the 4.4 million bite
hold virtually all th card. the
In October, eight bla
nannies ho to their
white char s to a ballet
concert t bite suburban
recreation center in Johan­
ne urg ere denied entry
becau th y didn't ha
permits. Effort by
bite h u wive to
recreation center.
Th relati nship be
rvant and bite
dam ' and
b n
recervmg threatenin tele­
'phone calls.
For her bo, inter-
vie ed 50 employers and
175 rvant in th E ern
ape province 0 er thr
months.
She found that m nthly
ran d from five
to 0 and that
almost 75
fulltime d
full-ti e
ater fr
m-
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