Postcard reflecting the miner’s colourful preparations and decorations for the Chinese New Year celebrations

Updated: 24 Jul 2019

(Left) Postcard reflecting the miner’s colourful preparations and decorations for the Chinese New Year celebrations on the Rand. (Right) Opera performers; and stage constructed of sacking and paper, both cards sent from Grahamstown, on 21 July 1908 and 14 July 1909, respectively.

The three-day Chinese New Year celebrations at the Randfontein Mine at the end of January 1906 were the most colourful ever seen on the Rand. It comprised of opera performances, processions and feasts as well as elaborate decorations in the compounds.

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