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ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… the discovery of diamonds in 1867. [1] More than diamond mining, the discovery of gold in 1882 was the engine behind … for electricity generation – and from…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… and the Gold Rush. We will also discuss how the mining industry developed and how the discovery of gold in … of Gold in the Witwatersrand The Development of…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… into the interior. The Lobedu, the southward moving gold-mining Venda, and small groups of Tsonga from Mozambique …
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… orders ’ (Goodspeed). This mass banning of groups hurt the mining labor force and caused an uproar among the workers. …
Liberation
… settled, as many of them involve large commercial farms, mining operations and towns. Of the three pillars of land …
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… from all over the world came to Johannesburg, the new mining town, to find gold. The Boers did not want the …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… stated objective of “the reallocation of labour between mining, manufacturing and agriculture”, but also to take …
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 2: Policing and Resistance
… unrest. Instead of meeting with the protesting miners, the mining management and ownership of the mine, Lonmin, refused …
ArticleBlack Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… the Witwatersrand Native Labour Association to recruit mining labour from the concentration camps. Simultaneous to …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Rand (Hagie Rand). Many miners were killed by police and mining companies’ private armies, who sought to prevent … later, white miners who died were named,…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
Land and labour are two very important elements of the economic development of a society, and the way they are used will influence how the society develops. In…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… offers the young man employment in a store in the small mining town of Klerksdorp, on the West Rand. The young man is … that the Gold Act , prohibiting…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… Native Mine Clerks Association hands a memorandum to the Mining Industry Board. Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) … establishes the principle of the…
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… breccias in dolomite. The majority were found through lime mining activities near Johannesburg (lime was used to process …
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… solidarity. In this they were most successful in the gold mining industry in the 1940s, where it fell to Albert … was a euphemism for a new understanding…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… to lavishly accommodate the distinguished visitors of the mining industry – those protesting contrasted the opulence of … low wages and poor living…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… ↵ [xiii] Mandla Langa, "Mining the Archives of our Lives" (seminar, STIAS Fellows' …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… the increasing urbanisation of black South Africans into mining centres such as the Witwatersrand. The sound of marabi …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… considerable historical significance due to its diamond mining past and the siege during the Second Boer War. …
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… of a R25-million share allocation by Gold Fields, a gold-mining firm located in South Africa. The law firm believed …
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. …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… 1856 A copper mine is established by the Walfish Bay Mining Company. Swedish explorer Charles John Anderson … Otavi Minen und Eisenbahngesellschaft is…
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 …
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…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… any trade union confederation. The Act also excludes the mining industry from its terms. The ANC is represented at an …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… The Ziwa and Gokomere communities survived by farming and mining the land. The area marks the earliest Iron Age …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in…