1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… 'fall of rock' and who, at deep levels, ranging from 1,000 to 3,000 feet in the bowels of the earth, sacrifice … face of the most savage police terror, in which officially 1,248 workers were wounded and a very large number - … Marshal Smuts, announced that wages were to be raised by 4 pence for surface and 5 pence for underground workers, and …