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ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
Paintings and engravings on rocks in the open air and on cave walls are called rock art. There is rock art on about every continent, but South Africa has some…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… of certificates of competency for a number of skilled mining occupations to Whites and Coloureds only. Repealed by … for those who had acquired interests on…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… century, there was a need for male labor production in mining [xiii] . The oppression of domestic workers was a …
The Afrikaner Bond
… to cash in on the gold boom, buying shares or starting mining companies, including DF du Toit, Charles Kohler, … over the Transvaal and its goldfields, as…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… many settlers to Peru. Most settlers were involved in mining the vast amounts of silver and gold that existed in …
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 …
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…
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 …
Outbreak of bubonic plague
The outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Cape Town appears to have given a measure of warning to other coastal cities in the Cape, and a number of preventative and…
1947-Joint Declaration of Cooperation
 1947 "Joint Declaration of Cooperation" Signed by Dr A.B. Xuma, President of the African National Congress, Dr G.M. Naicker, President of the Natal…
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1950-1959 1950 A.K.M. Docrat, a popular activist, was named under the Suppression of Communism Act. He was jailed for thirty…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… 30% Finance 22% Social services 21% Manufacturing 17% Mining 1% Year Population 1960 650 1970 21037 1996 48211 2001 …
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… Songhay, Benin and the Asante, all built on wealth from mining gold. In spite of the evidence, Europeans justified …
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… inland and sold it to traders on the East coast. Gold mining was very widespread in traditional Shona society. It …
America, Spanish conquest
… many settlers to Peru. Most settlers were involved in mining the vast amounts of silver and gold that existed in …
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
Ancient Egypt The ancient Egyptian civilisation grew for thousands of years intact because the Nile River Valley and Mediterranean and Red Sea border kept…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… supply crisis was in early 2008 when gold and platinum mining companies were forced to stop all extraction and …
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… Jooste approached Strathmore Investments – an English mining company that owned Weekblad, a Labour Party …
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… slightly higher than that provided in farming. However, mining companies were able to employ a sufficient amount of …
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… a hearing on behalf of the miners who died in the Kinross mining disaster. The IDAF also supported Wendy Orr, a …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… Development Act, 2002 aimed at transforming the country's mining industry by giving the government control of mineral … to replace Zuma. 27 September, Brett…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… governmental/educational service and in the coal and gold mining industries. February, Moses Kotane and Maulvi Cachalia …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… any trade union confederation. The Act also excludes the mining industry from its terms. The ANC is represented at an …
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
Vlakplaas is the name of an undercover counterinsurgency division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vlakplaas is also referred to as C, C1…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
The term “poor whites” was coined during the 19th century, as the mineral revolution and development of mines forced smaller farmers off their land.[1] This…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… The long-standing entry of Africans into wage labour in mining, manufacturing and farming was not seen to contradict … the majority of the people “to the…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… Africa was established. The first president was the mining magnate Henry Nourse. In his youth Nourse was a …