SAHO global search
945 records
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… more was being sold by the government to white farmers, mining companies and land companies. Africans who wanted to …
PlaceUniversity of the Witwatersrand, (Wits)
… in Further Reading. The History of Wits is linked with Mining , Academic Excellence , and with Political and Civic … surrounded by Mines in the City of…
PlaceKathu
… the late 1960's and early 1970's, as a result of iron ore mining in the Kalahari Desert , which hosts one of the five … ore, essential in the production of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… 25/1926 is passed. It reinforces the colour bar in the mining industry and also excludes Indian miners from skilled …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… or educational services and those in the coal and gold mining industries. It was repealed by section 63 of the …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… Coloured persons are further debarred from acquiring mining titles and privileges and from trading in such areas. …
PlaceKleinzee, Northern Cape
… Kleinzee (sometimes referred to as Kleinsee) was a diamond mining town, tourists visited as part of the diamond route. Until De Beers closed their mining…
Cyril Ramaphosa: Can ‘Mr Nice’ Be A Decisive President? Some say he lacks decisiveness, also in pursuit of his own interests by Liesl Pretorius (Huff Post), 21 August 2017
… up in Soweto, was genuine when he wanted to organise the mining sector in 1982. "You have to understand that the mining industry used to employ only…
PlaceBenoni, Ekurhuleni Municipality
… by men from England. Sir George Farrar , the Chairman of a Mining Company, undertook the beautification of the rapidly growing Mining Town in, 1904. The Mine…
PlaceLittle Chelsea, 18 Windermere Road, Durban
This Victorian double-storey building with cast-iron verandah was designed by architects Reid & Hurst in 1897 and was built for L Evans, for use as a shop,…
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
… mine operations. I found a vast difference between the mining in the Soviet Union and the mining in South Africa because in South Africa in those days … who…
EventA proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act is made
Under a proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act South Africans across race spectrum would have their fingerprints taken and recorded on a central…
PlaceWitwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)
… is now converted to an urban forest, and sediment from mining waste has blocked natural waterways, unexpectedly … and informal settlements began to occupy…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… 1856 A copper mine is established by the Walfish Bay Mining Company. Swedish explorer Charles John Anderson … Otavi Minen und Eisenbahngesellschaft is…
Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native Question (Majority) (1934)
… diamond diggings 4.5 to 1. In this primary industry of mining about half a million Native workers are employed. In … types of employment, the rate is 7 to 1…
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… of South Africa’s industrial capacity, particularly in the mining and gold industries. As a defence against criticism, …
Address at the Meeting of Nigerian and South African Business 2 October 2000
… energy, communication and information technology, and also mining, and the environment. At the same time, we need to …
Introduction - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… the land and moved into the cities to become workers in mining, industry, commerce, transportation and other spheres. …
PlaceKoffiefontein, Free State Province
… the barracks in which they were held. In the 20th Century mining operations were suspended several times, the last time …
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… Frederick Johnstone, in his pioneering study of the gold mining industry, claims that Its general thesis .is that this … by representatives of many different…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… Act to prevent Indians from owning property or trading in mining areas. 1922 January, General Smuts ’s Government is … miners mount an armed revolt against…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… of certificates of competency for a number of skilled mining occupations to whites and coloureds only. Repealed by …
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
The farm was originally granted to Johan Rauch in 1792, Within two months, had sold it on to Andries Teubes, who probably built the manor in 1795-96 according…
EventQueen Mother Elizabeth turns 100
Queen Elizabeth, British Queen Mother, celebrated her 100th birthday with thousands of people lining up in the streets of London to cheer her. The Queen Mother…
PlaceLekkersing, Namaqualand
The small settlement of Lekkersing, established in 1926 by Ryk Jasper Cloete, lies 60 km east of Port Nolloth. It is said that its name (which means to sing…
PlaceKrugersdorp
… known as: ' Mogale City '. Krugersdorp was essentially a mining town, regarded as the industrial hub of Western … in and around Krugersdorp and its history…
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
… as opposed to historical migrant industrial and, or mining working-class. The paper draws from the developing …
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
… has an infamous Diamond Mine which is; 80% owned by Lonrho Mining and 20% by the Schmidtsdrift Communal Property …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
Regular elections have been a feature of South Africa’s political landscape since the establishment of Union of South Africa in 1910. With the adoption of the…
PlaceLovedale Missionary School
The missionary school where so many Black intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th century—from Tiyo Soga to Thabo Mbeki to Steve Biko — were to be educated. …