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ArchiveDiamond mining complex 'seized' by Unita 1985
… Diamond mining complex 'seized' by Unita 1985 … Diamond mining complex 'seized' by Unita 1985 …
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… Deep Level Mining Only twenty years after the first mine was started at … South Africa, bringing much money into the country. Gold mining on the Rand created…
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… kingdoms had lost their independence. During the gold-mining revolution, patterns of land and labour were … balance of power in South Africa brought about by…
BiographyJohn Jack Curtis
… Over the years, he gained professional management, mining and engineering qualifications. Two years later, he … he stood as a candidate for Parliament in a…
BiographyKing Mzilikazi
… realized the extent of gold present around the old African mining villages along the Mfuli and Tati Rivers. At …
Article1946 Mine Workers Strike timeline 1867-1987
… in Orange Free State and Kimberley. 1867 Diamond mining begins in Griqualand West. 1872 Introduction of pass … 1889 Cecil Rhodes already extremely wealthy…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… the present district of Johannesburg. By August 1886, the mining camp, as yet unnamed, could already boast of some 3000 … district was a typical product of…
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
Wendy Heather Woods (neè Bruce) was born on 5 February 1941 in Mthatha (formerly Umtata), Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). An outstanding pupil in school,…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… five month long strike affected both the workers and the mining companies. The South African mining industry shed 20,000 jobs in the 12 months leading to ……
BiographyJohn Beaver "J.B" Marks
John Beaver (JB) Marks was born on 21 March 1903, Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal (now North West Province). His father was a railway worker and his mother, a…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… period of economic depression following World War I, when mining companies were faced with rising costs and a fall in … War of 1899 to 1902 caused extreme…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… Britain, Diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansion … growth was stimulated by the continual expansion of the mining industry, and with…
BiographySipho Gumede
Sipho Gumede was born in Cato Manor, a then mainly Indian area in Durban. From a young age he showed interest in music, playing on a homemade guitar. He was…
BiographyWilliam Stewart Ainslie
William Stewart (Bill) Ainslie was born on 10 April 1934 in Bedford (Eastern Cape). Studied at the university of Natal, Pietermartizburg (BA) 1952-1955 and (BA…
BiographyDaniel (Sampie) Malope
Born in 1915, Malope was a house painter. He joined the ANC Youth League in 1944 and was arrested in 1946 for assisting in the African mine workers' strike. He…
BiographyDr Kwame Nkrumah
… proposed by British engineerings to supplement their local mining operations, was revived as an project that would …
BiographyGodfrey Sekhukhune
Mogaramedi Godfrey Sekhukhune was one of the ‘most important’ of the Sekhukhune revolt leaders. He ‘was from the royal family at Mohlaletse and in the 1940s…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… British – especially for the ‘uitlanders’ (foreigners) and mining magnates – who wanted to unite the country; but it was … and used to satisfy the labour…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… which took place due to the discovery of diamonds and the mining thereof, as well as the increasing interest of Britain … from India working in Natal. In the…
BiographyMarion Monica Sparg
Marion Monica Sparg was born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African family in the…
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… and maize amongst other crops. In the 1970s, platinum mining was introduced and it rapidly grew to become the main industry in the region. Following the…
David Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines"by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… Miss Lilford. Population figures depended on the state of mining and other economic activity (See Box) and therefore … services became available to cater to…
BiographyMrs. N. Parenithama Pillay
Mrs. N. Pillay (Parenithama), mother-in-law of Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo, was part of the first group of Transvaal women who went to Natal (now…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… moved to Elandslaagte, Northern Natal, the centre of coal mining, where they felt that there would be better …
BiographyMatome Maponya
Matome Maponya was born on May 14 1949 in the Thabakgone village of Lephapane in the district of Tzaneen, where his parents eked out an existence on their…
BiographyPhillip Qipu Vundla
Philip Vundla was born in 1901 and attended Healdtown for some years before finding work in Johannesburg as a mine clerk. In the mid-1940s he was an organiser…
ArticleThe Jameson Raid
… of the Reform Movement, which a number of successful mining and business personalities started in the turbulent … had contributed in no small measure to the…
BiographyAzaria Mbatha
Azaria Mbatha was born in 1941. Azaria was educated at a mission school for eight years. In 1961 he left Ceza Secondary School and began working as a clerk…
BiographyDr. Percy Yutar
Dr. Percy Yutar was born on 29 July 1911 in Cape Town. He was one of eight children in a family of Lithuanian immigrants. His father originally spelled his…