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EventQueen Victoria of Britain approves Charter for Rhodes
… the metals and minerals in his kingdom and the right to mining companies to do anything necessary to further their …
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 …
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…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… the white workers, the white labour aristocrats and the mining magnates is a homogeneous white mass, but he proceeds … political state was finally achieved…
BiographyLouis Botha
… From 1911, efforts were made to reclassify semi-skilled mining and railway tasks as skilled and thus, reserved for …
EventErfdeel farm in Orange Free State becomes SA’s richest gold deposit
… On 3 June 1954, a mining engineer at the Erfdeel farm in the Orange Free State … at www.time.com , [Last accessed:3 June 2013]| Superior Mining Mangalisa…
EventKaunda announces nationalisation of Copper mines
… Kenneth Kaunda announces nationalisation of copper mining companies, key to Zambia's economy contributing over …
PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
… who was a key figure in the local and international mining world, and the first mayor of Kimberley. The fountain …
PlaceDolobran, Parktown, Johannesburg
… brilliant accountancy. He was a prominent figure in the mining and financial world. The mansion was towered and …
PlaceVenda
… Economy was largely depended on Agriculture, until Coal-mining began in the 1980s. Most of the men from the Area were …
EventSouth Africa relinquishes sovereignty over Walvis Bay
… significant loading port for fisheries, as well as mining materials. Because of its strategic position, …
EventDay of mourning held for Kinross mine disaster that claimed 177 lives
… fellow mine workers held memorial services throughout the mining industry to mourn these deaths, under the supervision …
Event18 mineworkers die in Carletonville
… death toll to nineteen. The explosion did not disrupt mining, which continued the next day. An inquiry found that …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… Anglo-Boer War and before the unification of South Africa mining companies suffered from a shortage of unskilled …
Archive2017 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2017
… jobs. The focus areas include industrialisation, mining and beneficiation, Agriculture and agro Processing, … methodology in the ocean economy, health,…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
Patrick Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his…
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
… Charles Rudd, one of the founders of the De Beers diamond mining company.[ii] Bevil was educated at Saint Andrew’s …
PlaceOld Fort, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg
… 1896 to build a fort on Hospital Hill, overlooking the mining town of Johannesburg, on a site currently occupied by …
Document 53 - M. Harmel, “Observations on Certain Aspects of Imperialism in South Africa”, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 3, February 1954
… from overseas continue to predominate in the Unions mining and other key industries, the section of the bourgeois … a bourgeois society or to accept the…
PlaceBarberton, Mpumalanga
… and his cousin Fred discovered gold in the Area. The mining of gold in South Africa began in Barberton, where Tom … Mine , Discovered in 1887 and owned by…
PlaceNapier
… for gold on the farm Hansiesrivier . The Napier Gold Mining Company was established, shares were issued but it had …
PlaceOld gaol, Seventh Avenue, Roodepoort
… in 1890 when it was converted to use as a gaol for the mining village of Florida. The structure was enlarged by …
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… on higher ground South-West of the town, close to the mining area, and was built according to NZASM designs. …
EventSA experiences a monetary crisis due to the heavy drain of gold from the country during the Great Depression
… of the mineral sector was badly affected, it was the gold mining industry that managed to save South Africa's economy …
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… resulting in the loss of 183 467 ‘man days’ to various mining companies. The trial of trade unionists, mineworkers …
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… The first post- Union administration, responding to the mining industry’s labour demands and the disquiet of White …
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… of the CPSA, criticised the paper calling it a tool of the mining industry. This was perhaps driven by the paper’s …
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate, dies.
… mines and was fast establishing himself as one of the main mining magnates on the Witwatersrand. Through his association …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… jobs. At the same time, more and more jobs outside of mining were becoming available — the towns and the … Wages of Black Workers on the Rand, July 1918 Job …
Address to the Opening of South Africa Day CEO Conference, London (via video link-up), 21 November 2002
… economy by black South Africans. The recently adopted Mining Charter is an example of the commitment of South … that we have arrived at an excellent…