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David Goldblatt - 'Mostly Unseen' at the Goodman Gallery by Sean O'Toole
… youth is after all simply the cheap brawn that powers the mining industry. As is so often the case with a Goldblatt …
PlaceLuderitz, Namibia
… and Luderitz Museum which gives information on diamond mining, indigenous peoples, life in the Namib Desert and …
PlaceNorth West
… known as “The Texas of South Africa” given its strong mining and agricultural economy. The region is situated …
5th Jozi Book Fair
… household surveys, (Chris Hani Institute), communities and mining (Benchmarks) and the challenges facing young people to …
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… the evidence of how legislation was used to the benefit of mining magnates and white workers to oppress African workers. … farms and mines about African…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… wars. The economy of Ghana was based on iron and gold mining along with agriculture. Products were traded with … Asante kingdom and it developed a wealthy…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… October, The Azapo health secretariat and the Black Allied Mining and Construction Workers’ Union launch an …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… for those who had acquired interests on proclaimed (mining) land. The Industrial Conciliation Act of 1930 …
Prehistory of the Rustenburg area
… discovered on BaFokeng land in 1921, the government and mining companies made many attempts to dispossess the …
The diary of Maria Tholo - Epilogue by Carol Hermer
… all South African - and independent homeland - blacks. Mining, on which the economy of South Africa still primarily …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… Employment opportunities opened up in both the mining and manufacturing industries. Both African and … outside of the farming sector”” such as transport,…
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… the disputes shifted to the Witwatersrand. In 1907, the mining companies proposed to increase the proportion of … own terms. The Government appointed a…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
… us, that Brickfields, which emerged as a dormitory of the mining industry in the 19th century and which was a … a wasteland as both the apartheid government…
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… Although the primary industries of agriculture and mining dominated the economy, great strides were made in … skilled) positions in industry on a large scale…
Archive2016 - President Zuma: State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2016
… We have heard the appeals for policy certainty in the mining sector, especially with regards to the Mineral and … security policy. Compatriots, Only a few…
ArchiveThe Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018
… and the seemingly inexorable advance of corporate and mining development. The photographs are bare of nostalgia, …
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… and 1893 respectively. 5 Although the development of the mining industry was the prime reason for the rapid growth of … years of the 20th century. By virtue…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… Indians from occupying land designated as a public mining area and offered no protection to people who acquired interests on proclaimed mining land…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… public digging – coloured persons debarred from acquiring mining Sexual relations between whites and coloured persons … for those who had acquired interests…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… This decade also marked the gradual transition from a mining and agricultural economy (before the war) to a …
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… huge social and economic effect on South Africa. Gold and mining remained the biggest industry in the country, but …
PlaceBonnievale, Langeberg Municipality-Cape Town
Bonnievale is a quiet Town in the Breede Valley of the Western Cape. Bonnievale is surrounded by the Langeberg Mountains. What makes Bonnievale so unique is…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… to Johannesburg) and horse drivers' union in the diamond mining town of Kimberly; in Cape Town, a sister organisation, … of black labour, upon which the…
PlaceRoodepoort, Johannesburg
… now a mix of: Residential Suburbs; Agricultural Holdings; Mining in the South of Roodepoort. There is some Commercial …
Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101st Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 2013
… government for sustainable development and job creation. Mining has historically been the backbone of our economy and … We call on the ANC government to…
Archive2013 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2013
… scourge. Honourable Speaker Honourable Chairperson, Mining, which is historically the backbone of the economy, … which laid the basis for a return to work…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… government for sustainable development and job creation. Mining has historically been the backbone of our economy and … We call on the ANC government to…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… of Mines in the case of any land proclaimed under any mining related law and the Natural Resources Development … ownership would expire after ten years (5…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… visit them. Black inhabitants of southern Africa had been mining and working gold for centuries before the arrival of … in 1886 on the Witwatersrand. Laws…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… range of industries such as iron, steel and engineering, mining, commercial and distributive trades, municipal …