"The cheap servant

It is against the law for black servants to live under the same roof as their employers. In a private home, servants would have a separate little room in the backyard. She lives on the edge of opulence, while her own world is bare. Newspapers are her carpet, fruit crates her chairs and table."

fm 'Ernest Cole’s photographs of 1960s South Africa during apartheid' in the FT

https://www.ft.com/content/9919a741-9115-460c-b541-405b1ef2ab32