In 1965 I left with Jack and went to Manchester. When I came back to Lusaka, I worked for the International Labour Office. And I went on going to the ILO right up and including 1976, representing the South African Congress of Trade Unions, and we were responsible for organising the biggest conference against Apartheid of working people in the whole world. That was in June I973. South Africa is the most notorious racist country.
Race discrimination is by law, by statutory law.
On the labour front the South African Industrial Conciliation Act was introduced in I 924. This Industrial Conciliation Act was amended in 1937 and again changed in 1956. That act of fifty-six also introduced job reservation, the colour bar in employment, in the same way it was on the mines. And now with the act of 1956 for commerce, industry, in all places of work, the African workers and Coloureds could be denied the right to work. The history of the South African labour movement is the fact that they established the Labour Party, and the workers also helped to establish, together with other Marxists, the Communist Party of South Africa.