CSM Kings Cross

ALT Colour linocut on paper shows two people standing side by side, A black woman in domestic service uniform and a black man on overalls of a domestic worker. 1975 Black people were bound to their employers and needed ‘passes’ to be in cities, designated as ‘white areas’. Frances worked as a maid (referred to as ‘the girl’), and Simon as a ‘garden boy’. They were a married couple, but they could not live together as she was staying on her employer’s premises in a ‘white’ area. Their children lived with relatives in the rural areas hundreds of miles away. This fracturing of family life was a key tenet of apartheid, prohibiting any form of settled or family life for black South Africans in the cities.