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The article presents information on how gold was playing an important part in South Africa's trade balance. The South African gold mines afford direct employment to some 50,000 white workers and 300,000 natives and indirect employment to tens of thousands more. The part played by gold in South Africa's trade balance is equally impressive. In view of this degree of dependency on gold, South Africans insist that drastic curtailment of the industry would be disastrous. It would not be possible, to transfer unskilled native labor to other occupations.