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Date: 1938 Type: Hostel Status: Demolished Street: 41 Salt River Rd   Click to view large map Coordinates: 33°55'48"S 18°27'27"E

(SAB Oct 1938:66) ------------------ "In the 1910s and early 1920s most Afrikaans whites moved into inner-city areas - Woodstock and Salt River - with a resident population of poor people and a fair number of 'coloured' families, and next to more predominantly 'coloured' and 'Malay' areas. At the Salt River hostel, the ACVV combined a measure of security for single, female wage-earners with an environment calculated to draw them into the community of the 'volk'. Their social clubs for fabrieksmeisies likewise sought to mould workers into Afrikaners." (Source: Du Toit, M. 1996. Women, welfare and the nurturing of Afrikaner nationalism. pp. 166, 357.) An early advertisement read: "Goedkoop en aangename losiesplek vir werkende meisies onder 21 jaar. Goeie ete, mooi slaap-, bad- en ontvangkamers. Ook was- en strykgeriewe." - Cheap and pleasant lodging place for working girls under 21 years. Good meals, nice sleeping, bath, and reception rooms. Also laundry and ironing facilities. All truncated references not fully cited below are those of Joanna Walker's original text and cited in full in the 'Bibliography' entry of the Lexicon.