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… period. On May Day in 1950, 80% of the workforce on the Rand struck, demanding higher wages, the vote, and a halt to … was called for June 26. Though less well supported on the Rand (the CNETU leaders stated that the renewed call was …

… workers in downtown Johannesburg outside the Randlord's "Rand Club"). A second general strike in 1914 is suppressed …

… your invitation in March, the difficulties facing the Rand had just started to unfold. And by the time we accepted …

… decent life. Further, the music industry is a multimillion-rand industry that adds substantially towards our economy. …

… the response was poor. Leading Congress officials in many Rand towns openly broke the call, and the workers were left … were repatriated later that year. 2 The all-white 1922 Rand Revolt was the first major white mining strike after the …

… had been going on for hundreds of years; a peasant family revolt against the evil system of migrant labour. Squatter … thinking young people, where they can share their revolt against the perpetuation of this discriminating and …

… of Johannesburg. 1975 Albertina's son Zwelakhe joined Rand Daily Mail as cadet. 1976 13 June, Albertina's daughter …

… detention law, at Marshall Square, Modderbee Prison (East Rand) and then transferred to the Fort in Johannesburg. At …

… Corporation employed local BaTswana to work on the Rand mines. By 1937, the corporation signed three-year leases …

… Xuma makes a statement, published in the Bantu World and Rand Daily Mail, calling for the government to hold …

… Buildings plan for our protest, calling women of the East Rand and the West Rand, as well as Johannesburg itself, to come to the City …

… of injured. At the same time, students in Alexandra, East Rand, Cape Town and elsewhere mobilized solidarity action …

… education originally available for Indian children on the Rand was at mission schools. In 1903, Milner had rejected an …

… house the white male security prisoners. Since the Soweto revolt, the authorities have been especially severe in their …

… of that trade. Miners would come all the way from the East Rand to buy his rugs, imported from Ireland. He took a very … were a few press photographers on the main papers, the Rand Daily Mail, The Star, the Sunday Times, and then there …

… more and more labour from them without the risk of a revolt.  It was the status of the slave, the purpose for … a country which refuses to abandon a slave system   [1] A Rand (R) was then equal to half a pound sterling.   …

… more and more labour from them without the risk of a revolt. It was the status of the slave, the purpose for … above the age of 18 years must pay a minimum of R3.50 A Rand (R) was then equal to half a pound sterling. per annum, …

… across the country were involved in the most serious revolt against the white state since the Defiance and … that attacked the property and employees of the West Rand Administration Board (wrab). Two wrab employees were …

… their various societies. They have been seen as a time of revolt against the established values and traditions of … press cuttings from the Cape Times, the Cape Argus and the Rand Daily Mail, the three English language newspapers from … The impact of the visit can be seen in an editorial by the Rand Daily Mail merely five days later. It stated that 'he …

… present supremacy by sheer force against a rising tide of revolt. Toynbee warned that holding on against the tide was … was fighting in Vietnam. The study was commissioned by the RAND Corporation whose experts considered themselves the … weak upstart. A group of historians who worked on the RAND Corporation’s project came up with a completely …

… Citizen newspaper as a counter against the views of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper. By 1977 the performance of the …

… has been degraded by the condition of his service, the Rand has similarly had a demoralising effect upon the Native. … conditions under which thousands are living on the Rand, and their unwholesome moral surroundings, are mainly … "But," say some of the leaders of the trades on the Rand, "we are not going to have such a state of affairs in …

… by William Salter, a tailor and trade unionist. See Rand Daily Mail, 3 October 1905.1 am indebted to Dr David … Johnstone, "The Industrial Workers of Africa on the Rand Socialist organising among Black workers on the Rand 1917 - 1918," in Belinda Bozzoli, ed. Labour, Township …

… pays a subsidy ranging between twelve and fifteen rand per child per day, for qualifying children from poor …

… abroad with no advance publicity and to spend millions of rand to entice sportsmen and teams from abroad to play in …

… Sejake, one of SACTU's most militant organisers on the Rand in the 1950s, recounted in the last issue of  Inqaba , …

… 9 January 1937 Document 100 - "15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike: Communist Party Calls Mass Demonstration to …

… it was even friendly. In the general strike on the Rand in 1922, Nationalist Afrikaner workers and British …

… After the unsuccessful strike of the white miners on the Rand in 1907, many Afrikaners found employment in the gold …

… other towns, leaving behind him the valuable legacy of the Rand Joint Council of Euro­peans and Bantu. Another worthy …