sionally took my holidays in Johannesburg, and assisted the
Vicar, during which time I could take charge of Christian native
marriages, of which the State took no cognisance. A native may marry,
and any time after leave his wife, but the woman would have no legal
claim on him. He could marry again as soon as he pleased, and he could
not be proceeded against either for support of his first wife or for
bigamy. And so he might go on as long as he wished to marry or could get
anyone to marry him. The same is applicable to all persons of colour,
even if only slightly coloured--half-castes of three or four generations
if the colour is at all apparent. All licenses for the marriage of white
people must be applied for personally, and signed in the presence of the
Landdrost, who is very cautious lest half-castes or persons of colour
should get one. Colour is evidently the only test of unfitness to claim
recognition of the marriage contract by the Transvaal State.

"The injustice of such a law must be apparent; it places a premium on
vice.[34] It gives an excuse to any 'person of colour' to commit the
most heinous offences against the laws of morality and social order, and
protects such a one from the legal consequences which would necessarily
follow in any other civilised State."

Mr. Bovill has an instructive chapter on the "Compound system," and the
condition of native compounds. This is a matter which it is to be hoped
will be taken seriously to heart by the Chartered Company, and any other
company or group of employers throughout African mining districts." The
Compound system of huddling hundreds of natives together in tin shanties
is the very opposite to the free life to which they are accustomed. If
South African mining is to become a settled industry, we must have the
conditions of the labour market settled, and also the conditions of
living. We cannot expect natives to give up their free open-air style of
living, and their home life. They love their homes, and suffer from
homesickness as much as, or probably more than most white people. The
reason so many leave their work after six months is that they are
constantly longing to see their wives and children. Many times have they
said to me, 'It would be all right if only we could have our wives and
families with us.'"

"The result of this compound life is the worst possible morally."....

"We must treat the native, not as a machine to work when required under
any condit