Jonathan Vincent’s Reviews > South Africa: The Rise and Fall of Apartheid > Status Update

"Moving Africans from their separate living areas, sometimes more than 100 miles, to their urban workplaces on a daily basis required an enormous bus network...with African wages kept low, the real cost could not be charged completely against the consumer... by the late 1970s the state was subsidizing African bus passengers at a rate of $1000 per person per year."