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Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… paper which totally supported the strike, was sued by four mining companies for 40,000 pounds for publishing the Unions … - prohibiting gatherings of more…
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… source The Native Land Act affected both the farming and mining sectors. Much of the land set aside for black people … could not make a decent living. As a…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… . It is argued that this led to the revitalisation of the mining industry and the expansion of manufacturing industry. … reserves by prospective employers…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… of town and district schools (farm schools). 1868 Mining begins in the vicinity when Henry Hartley’s claims of … higher chrome ore was developed. In 1968 it…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… (the AIDS ribbon and the consequences of blue asbestos mining). This being South Africa, every photograph here could …
Chapter 3. The Poor White Problem - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… of a modern economy by the introduction of extensive mining operations left them untouched at first. The mines … there were no jobs for them. Indeed, the…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… were the influential people of Johannesburg, the mayor, mining and business moguls, politicians and people that …
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… (STEYCO), claimed to have five branches located in the mining and cotton-farming communities on the eastern border …
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… for labour increased. In 1885, the De Beers Diamond Mining Company became the first private organisation to …
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… manufacturing industry began to expand rapidly, overtaking mining as the biggest single contributor to national … in areas far less easy for the bosses to…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2014 (before National Elections)
… for environmental impact assessments, water licenses and mining licenses. Parliament is finalizing amendments to the … continues to facilitate discussions…
EventSouthern Rhodesia rejects joining the Union of South Africa
… Southern Rhodesia since October 1889 when it was granted a mining exploration charter by the British government. Its …
2018 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2018
… on infrastructure with business and organised labour. Mining is another area that has massive unrealised potential for growth and job creation is mining. We…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 09 February 2012
… 2000s due to slow growth and declining employment in gold mining and agriculture. Although jobs grew rapidly during … as infrastructure development,…
Apartheid - a Threat to Africa's Survival - Address under the Auspices of the Nigerian National Committee on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, 18 March 1971
… South Africa already has large investments in mining in all the countries of southern Africa. Her companies … capital, South African money and technique is…
PlaceBoschendal Wine Estate, Cape Town
… custodianship of Boschendal passed into the hands of the mining magnate Cecil John Rhodes who saw a lucrative …
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… WITH DISABILITIES 11) TRADITIONAL LEADERS 12) ENERGY 13) MINING 14) FINANCIAL SECTOR 15) SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 16) STATE … to arbitrary abuse by state officials…
What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… Africans see the music the world calls jazz. Bustling mining town Mekoa was born on the East Rand, where gold had … birthplace of Benoni was a bustling,…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Introduction
… that the most obvious effects of gold, diamond and coal mining are to be seen in the tremendous growth of African … class. The type of society that evolved…
PlacePretoria Art Museum
… the beginning of the 1930s. In 1932 after the death of the mining tycoon and supporter of the arts, Sir Max Michaelis …
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… of colonialism in the continent. The development of the mining industry after the discovery of diamonds and gold rapidly transformed the South African…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation, 9 February 2012
… 2000s due to slow growth and declining employment in gold mining and agriculture. Although jobs grew rapidly during the … as infrastructure development,…
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
Reggie Vandeyar was born into a poor family on 15 July 1931 in Newclare. His father was originally from India, who had come to South Africa to seek fortune. …
PlacePilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg
… with manure on the floors. Of course the British and the Mining Barons didn't want to use these materials and people …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… the mines. In South Africa, this was the other way around. Mining was the focus of industrial activity for at least 60 … began to produce more of the country…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 17 June 2014 (after National Elections)
… of the landmark Framework Agreement for a Sustainable Mining Industry entered into by labour, business and … to build housing and other services to…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
Born on 1 November 1935, in Berlin, Germany, Gerhardt joined the South African Navy after his father successfully persuaded naval chief Hugo Biermann to take…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
Letlapa Ngoato Mphahlele was born on 8 December 1960 in Rosenkrantz, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) to Radikubu and Nkone. He grew up in the village of…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… rights, but were owned by the municipality or by the mining companies. But in 1912, the houses in these working … Anglo-Boer War, most Rand town councils…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… and the dying mines ofthe Witwatersrand. Having lived in a mining town all my life, I felt the need to explore the mmmg … other for a final clean. These are…