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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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… the flag of the Republic, and a coat of arms was designed. Mining activity began, and was intermittent, until the platinum mining industry developed in the…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… conference extends the NOC structure to include the mining and agricultural workers. South African Congress of … adequate compensation for the victims of the…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… proportion of its members came from the manufacturing and mining sectors. The activities of Cosatu became closely …
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association to recruit mining labour from the concentration camps. Simultaneous to …
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… indicative of apartheid such as forced removals and mining camps, to offer photographs of people’s personal …
“Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The Beloved Country by Eleanor Evans
… only a minority to benefit from such discoveries. The mining industry is depicted as fuelling white materialism, … questions posed by John: “what is it worth…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… 1886 -1895 Gold is discovered in Johannesburg. Deep level mining is instituted for the first time in South Africa with …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… turned its focus to other industries such as agriculture, mining, transport and metal. However the situation in …
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… and social lines. Racist laws enabled the white-owned mining companies to control workers, keep wages very low and …
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 …
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 …
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 …