Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Brandis writes to Pretoria confirming that the Surveyor General had sent him a plan of the stands to be laid out, and … accepted. On the same day, Johann Rissik, Acting Surveyor General, issues De Villiers with a portion of the plan, … the first of many labour disputes which culminated in the General Strike of 1922. 1912 8 January, The South African …