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PlaceMelrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
George Heys, a young man from Durban, made his fortune in the diamond rush in Kimberley by establishing a successful coach transportation business that…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… in the South Africans mines, photographs of Africans mining were rare and hardly ever publicized. Black South …
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… depth to a national "soul" hitherto fixated only on mining and stocks: An aesthetic somebody once described South …
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… and boosting import substitution through protection. Mining magnates reaped the benefits of a very cheap, docile …
PlaceThaba Chewa Municipality
… Local Municipality is renowned for its forestry, tourism, mining and agriculture . "The threads that are woven into the …
PlaceGermiston
… experienced phenomenal growth and development. Many other mining ventures followed and Germiston`s growth was generated … experienced phenomenal growth and…
PlaceSouth African College High School
… now share the estate. The estate was previously owned by mining magnate Sir Max Michaelis, and his widow donated part … for this, ‘our greatest prize.’ The…
PlaceGariep River Mouth, Namibia
… the beaches. Access to that Area is restricted by diamond-mining companies, even though much of the search for precious … the public for many years, remain…
PlaceLetsemeng Local Municipality, Free State Province
… is centered on agriculture. The Municipal Area also has mining activities, with diamond minerals being the major …
EventLabram, manufacturer of 'Long Cecil' is killed by shell from 'Long Tom'
George Frederick Labram, manufacturer of a cannon popularly known as 'Long Cecil' in the De Beers' workshop in Kimberley, was killed by a shell from a Boer …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
An image of bold, selfless youth in late 1970s South Africa inspired by the black radical consciousness philosophy. Image Source Essay Question: To what…
4. Complaint of ill-treatment on an estate
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai There were many estates on which working…
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… progress has been made in restoring policy certainty on mining regulation and the visa regime, crafting the path … leading companies across 19 sectors of the…
PlaceBalfour, near Johannesburg
… to farms, game farms and bushveld. Balfour is a small coal mining and maize farming town originally called McHattiesburg … of Mpumalanga that is at the…
Document 38 - “How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “Umsebenzi, 12 December 1930
… - primarily the industrialists and particularly mining industrialists, in its efforts to find a way out of …
PlaceGauteng Province
… the Nguni people . The pick symbolises the importance of mining in the Province. The motto is shown on three gold bars, symbolising the gold mining and…
PlaceSanddrift, Richtersveld
… South Africa and Namibia. Tucked away in the Trans Hex mining area, Sanddrift is accessible from Alexander Bay, …
PlaceKaNyamazane Township, Mpumalanga
… It was part of a housing project for the employees of a mining processing company based in Nelspruit. Today it is a …
PlaceMajuba Power Station, Volksrust-Mpumalanga
This 4 110 megawatt Station, constructed at a cost of R 11.9 Billion, is one of the five biggest Power Stations in the World and the first to have been…
PlaceRust en Vreugd, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
The original date of construction of the dwelling has not been definitely established but it is assumed that it was built, in its present form, by Willem…
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… There would be a sudden and complete stoppage of all coal mining, diamond and gold mining, farming operations, and even the domestic system …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2011
… create jobs in sectors such as infrastructure development, mining, agriculture, tourism, green and knowledge-based … continue exploring ways of further…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 2 - The Development of a Colonial Slave Society by Wayne Dooling
… of the Zimbabwe interior turned to trade. Extensive mining and hunting operations made possible the export of … and Afrikaans. It was developed by southern…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… The racial hierarchical division of labour in the early mining industry (which paved the way for similar divisions in … to 1:11.6 1922. The high point of the…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… strong due to the need for wagons and carts by the mining industry. Other industries that also became prominent …
ArticleTransport on land
… Industrial Revolution and were aided by the growth of coal mining. Trains transported coal and raw materials and they …
PlaceSteenberg Farmstead, Tokai Road, Constantia
The Steenberg Estate, originally known as the Zwaanswyk, was granted to Catherina Ustings in 1688 and was one of the first farms in the Western Cape. Its Cape…
PlaceKlerksdorp- Matlosana Local Municipality
… town,” dating from 1888. An important grain-producing, mining (after 1932; gold and uranium), and Industrial centre, …
PlaceNamaqua National Park
… cultural landscape in the form of copper and diamond mining. The park was proclaimed on 29 June 2002 for the …
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 …