1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… a mass meeting of workers at the Newtown Market Square on 15 August. The meeting was banned in terms of the Riotous … a sense, embodied that spirit, in its session on Thursday, 15 August, in Pretoria, decided to adjourn as a protest … were the forerunners of the freedom strikers of May 1, 1950, against the Suppression of Communism Act, and the tens …