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[Black and white photograph of a vehicle on tracks pulling loads of cane, men stand on and around the cargo.]
Photograph by Melville Chater

THE MAKING OF A FIRST-CLASS BONFIRE NEAR DURBAN

Trucks are bringing in loads of sugar cane from the fields for maceration and reduction into
sugar at the plant. The first step is to free the cane from the loose husk which envelops it, and
this is done merely by setting fire to it. Being moist, the cane emerges entirely uninjured.

[Black and white photograph of a shirtless man working a sugar cube making machine. Another man stands behind a stack of trays of cubes.]

MAKING LUMP SUGAR FOR THE WHITE MAN'S TEA AND COFFEE

Sugar-cane plantations dot the coastal belt of Natal. They produce enough sugar for the Union
market and a surplus for export.

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