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Mira
Hamermesh has written and directed an observant and unbiased documentary
about the relationship between white South African women and the black
maids they employ. MAIDS AND MADAMS is as true a picture as we are
likely to get of what life is like for the one million black women
who work 10-12 hours a day, sometimes 7 days a week, for between 100
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The
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cause with more direct appeal to the heart was aired in Mira Hamermesh's
MAIDS AND MADAMS. An account of the exploitations of black female
servants by their white employers in South Africa. It was a calm and
understated film , showing that what appears monstrous from the outside,
is an ordinary fact of life to insiders, and all the more effective
for that. |
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Sunday
Telegraph 24/06/85
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