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24 South Africa Institute of Race Relations a liberal group that since early 70's has worked thru churches to establish "centers of concern" where white women typically showed their interest in promoting better conditions for servants by teaching literacy, sewing & cooking, & by praying w/ them regularly publishes recommended min. wage & hourly standards recommends overtire why, however, unheard of in practice article reports attempt to expand the Race Relations andt's project on domestic workers (headed by Leah Tutu, wife of Bishop Desmond Tutu) to town of Vereeninging, about an hs. south of Goh. project changes $4 for annual association dues many women afraid to join till can gauge seriousness of reprisals by employers & ability of the association to protect them many feared they would leave themselves open to the accusation they had done something political association plans to proceed by organizing a convincing no of workers & then go to the white authorities and ask them 25 to accept its recommended min. wage levels 3 article by T. Omas Ihomi on "Social Change & Its Impact on House Servants Nowadays" (Pestahan SOcial dan Dampakaya Tenhadap Pembantee Rumah Tangga Masa Keiri) - papr presented June 3, 82 at a conference on the Role and Social Function of House Servants in Metropolitan Cities" p1 - limits herself to discussion of female house servants relationships between these servants and majikan (employers) families already institutionalized she distinguishes 3 types of relationships: a)the colonial relationship where the employer is a different race & nationality from the women employed extreme social & power gap sexual exploitation of the tuan-nyai relationship & problem of illegitimate children not recognized by either race b)the relationship between upperclass Indonesians with women who are