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ArchiveSome aspects of the South African industrial revolution
… mention of the industrial development in particular the mining, timber and textile industries; the advances in …
EventLady Mary Bailey, the first pilot to complete the London to Cape flight and back solo, dies in Cape Town
… Lady Mary Bailey, wife of a South African mining magnate, was the first person to fly solo from London …
PlaceMpumalanga
… San rock paintings, Ndebele wall paintings, and the old mining town, Pilgrim’s Rest . Capital : Nelspruit Main … left Pilgrim’s Rest and went to the…
EventFirst recorded discovery of diamonds in the colonial period of South Africa
… of Diamonds in South Africa Gold and Workers - The Mining Industry in South Africa …
ArchiveMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
… plans — legally binding obligations on which its new order mining rights are dependent — should be investigated. It also … in the main, lived in shack…
ArchiveSome reflections of civilisation in Africa
… of uprootedness because of the development in industry and mining. …
EventThe BSAC flag is hoisted in Bulawayo
… Union Jack emblazoned with the BSAC badge in the centre. A mining concession had been obtained from Chief Lobengula in …
EventDr Alexander Logie du Toit, South African geologist, is born in Cape Town
… Africa’s most important geologist. Du Toit studied both mining engineering and geology. One of his most famous …
PlaceCottam Grove Hotel, 303-309 Florida Road, Durban.
… houses were erected in about 1903 on the instruction of mining magnate Sir Abe Bailey. After WWII the properties were …
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… general population of men would work in the quarries and mining fields during the day. Most, being told that they … disadvantages. Most men would work in the…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… Bailey – a former RAF pilot and the son of a South African mining baron – took over the magazine in 1951 that the … – reportedly due to his father's…
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… of South Africa’s secondary industry. Before the war, mining was the predominant contributor to South Africa’s …
ArticleThe missionaries
… land. The occupation, followed by the introduction of the mining industries (diamond in 1867 at Kimberly and gold in …
PlaceOld Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd Buildings, Iscor, Pretoria
… production in 1999. In December 2001 Iscor’s Steel and mining groups were unbundled into two separately listed mining and steel companies, namely Kumba…
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
… happen only in South Africa." In reaction, the Transvaal mining quarters said that the treatment of the boy's story …
EventThe railway line between Cape Town and George is opened.
… timber, which was used to make furniture and pit props for mining. This extension later became well known as the …
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… writes in New Nineveh, ‘has always been dominated by … mining, agriculture and domestic service.’ Van Onselen’s … Goldblatt (b.1930) began taking photographs…
Marikana and the New Politics of Grief, 20 August, 2012 - Jon Soske
… they’re going to kill you.” Government press conferences, mining executives, and newspaper articles have now spent … Connections between leading ANC figures…
PlaceConcordia
… the opening of the copper mines by the Concordia Copper Mining Company. The 1875 census indicated that Concordia …
PlaceAllanridge, Free State Province
… Allanridge is a Gold Mining Town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of the …
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… Times Chapter 2 - The Gold Rush Chapter 3 - Deep Level Mining Chapter 4 - The Randlords Part 2 - The Workers Their …
EventThe SA government gives limited powers of internal self-government to Damaraland
… and hunter-gatherers. Damaras also had skills in mining and metal work. In 1960, the South African government …
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… and south coast of Natal and was not just confined to the mining industry. Railway workers, laundrymen, bakery workers, …
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… up: the Boers would win the award, and agriculture and mining would benefit by gaining a corridor to the labour in …
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… up: the Boers would win the award, and agriculture and mining would benefit by gaining a corridor to the labour in …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1900 - 1909
… prohibits Indians from residing or conducting business in mining areas. 1909 March 25, Mrs Thumbi Naidoo, Mrs Patel and …
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… the ages of 19 and 40. Only those employed in agriculture, mining and railroads are exempted. 31 May The Battle of …
EventSouth African Committee investigates the Jameson Raid report
… the support and encouragement of Cecil John Rhodes and the mining houses in the Transvaal the Transvaal Republic. …
BiographyColine Williams
Coline Williams was born on 30 May 1967 and grew up in Bonteheuwel, a township in the Western Cape, South Africa. The eldest of three siblings, Coline, her…
BiographyIrene Menell (nee Manderstam)
… of them) both on and off campus. In 1954, Menell married mining executive, Clive Menell, and the couple went on to …