... created, for the first time in South Africa's history, a very clear division between the exclusively white skilled and supervisory employees, and the mass of unskilled Chinese or African workers. As Robert Ross mentions, "This produced an entrenchment of the color bar within the country's premier industry, one which was to outlast by far the immediate occasion for which it had been instituted ... ...

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