They were educating us, the older members. So I remember going with Noel Robb, who was such a strong personality, to visit the migrant labour hospita… - Mary Burton

To be confronted with the way in which black men had to live their lives. In those terrible cramped quarters, often with families illegally there. Those single-quarter hostels. They were terrible places. Just terrible. It was the 1960s, these were men who worked in factories, at the harbour, on the docks

Mary Burton: A heart for South Africa ,MAVERICK CITIZEN retrieved 2025-04-04

What will they do to make reparations for those who suffered so much in the past?” she says“Because without something being done – both symbolic and real – reconciliation is going to be very difficult.”