Sugar cane
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| Workers planting sugar cane |
Sugar cane flourished so much in Natal that the first mill was set up on the ... Indenture is a type of debt servitude, but is different from slavery. ... But it was not all that sweet for the sugar plantation workers once they arrived. |
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| Women working on the sugar cane plantation |
Painting of women working on the sugar cane plantation |
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| Tongaat Sugar Cane Field |
Tongaat was established in 1945 and its name was taken from the name of the uThongathi River which passes by the town: ... |
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| Tongaat Secondary |
School in Tongaat |
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The economics of sugar manufacturing in South Africa | |
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The control of Sugar production from a Miller's Point of view | |
| Sugar Mill - 1900 - Overport Hartley |
Hartley's Mill started crushing in 1874. At the end of 1880, Hartley's Overport Sugar and Coffee Estate |
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| Sugar cane fields |
Labourers on the Cane fields |
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| Sugar Cane Cutting |
he majority of Indian South Africans are the descendants of indentured workers brought to Natal between 1860 and 1911 to develop the sugar indus |
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Sugar Cane Crops 1981 to 1985 | |
| Sugar cane |
Loading sugar cane |
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| Old train in Sugar Fields |
Trains were used to transport sugar cane |
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| Nelson Mandela Receiving the Freedom of the Town of Tongaat 21 October 1994 | ||
| Mill_Made_From_Disused_Sugar_Mills_Scattered_Over_Natal |
Sugar cane flourished so much in Natal that the first mill was set up on the Compensation flats in 1850. As sugar became a larger crop in about ...
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| Loading cane |
Workers loading the cane on the cane field |
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| Letter written by Anthony Wilkinson to his Father William September 1862 | ||
| Indian Family outside hut |
Beyond indenture and until the 1960s, the majority of the descendants of the Indian indentured continued to experience abnormal family life ... |
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| Hurbans and Kassie Families |
Families from Tongaat |
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| Gopalall Hurbans |
Gopallal Hurbans was a sugar cane farmer and vice-president of the Natal Indian Congress. He was also the chairman of the Natal Vigilance Committee which protested against the Group Areas Act. |
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| Filling sugar in bags |
Workers in the storage area on a Sugar Mill |