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PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
… Town on the Witwatersrand. Boksburg was an important Mining Town with coal and some gold Mining taking place. Coal mining was the most important mining…
PlacePaul Kruger’s House, 60 Church Street West, Pretoria
… presented to President Kruger as a mark of appreciation by mining magnate Barney Barnato . It was declared a National … the verandah were given to Kruger by…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… particular began to mobilise workers in the fast-growing mining industry in Rustenburg. By the early 1980s, NUM … 100 000 people live on BaFokeng tribal land…
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… in Kimberley, and was the merger of the De Beers Mining Company and Kimberley mines under the Kimberley Central Diamond Mining Company - managed by Barney…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… period, the economy had seen some growth in the farming, mining and manufacturing industries. Mugabe’s government also …
BiographyMaqashu Leonard Mdingi
Leonard Maqhatshu Mdingi was born on 2 February1926. He grew up at his family homesteads first near Bizana, and then in Amadiba Location towards the coast in…
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
… gold mine, the site of the first commercial gold mining activity in South Africa’s modern History, has, in … instances, been relegated to mere footnote…
PlaceOld Lutheran Church, Kroondal
… farmers are left. This has mainly been as a result of the mining activities in the area which have contributed to a …
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… ). Typical handaxes and cleavers were exposed by lime mining at the beginning of the 20th century. Concentrations … not hearths but the result of manganese…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… Transvaal. In most cases this gold ran out, forcing small mining towns to close down. The gold found at langlaagte was … 'an endless treasure of gold'. The…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… taxes and to buy consumer goods. In the early days of mining, the workforce came from the Mfengu, the Ngqika (ka … which was characteristic of the initial…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… mined by shafts as opposed to open mines, like diamonds. Mining as an individual was not as efficient as using groups … independence. In order to maintain…
BiographyIsmail Mahomed
Ismail Mahomed was born in Prinsloo Street Pretoria on 25 July 1931, a second generation South African of Indian descent and first born child of devoutly…
BiographyGlynn Griffiths
… born on 20th March 1950 and grew up in the tough diamond mining town of Jagersfontein in the Free State in South …
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… worsened the already failing economies of Europe. The mining of mineral wealth from Africa required the … like the British South African Company for farming…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
… Ladd: Alongside the political and economic realities of mining Gold or other natural resources there can be any number of powerful metaphors associated with …
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
… shipping. Coastal vessels connected to fishing, whaling, mining and agriculture are of local interest as they show the …
EventMore than 100 miners are crushed to death near Orkney
… The mining industry in South Africa remains one of the most … derived from it. South Africa is a world leader in deep mining, with its gold mines being the…
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… of gold and diamonds. By the mid-nineteenth century, the mining industry was well established, particularly under the leadership of Cecil John Rhodes, a…
EventOosthuizen family disappears down a massive sinkhole in Carletonville
… The Oosthuizen family lived in a mining village called Blyvooruitzicht in Carltonville. Because of the area’s extensive underground mining, it became known…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… NUM embarked on the biggest strike in the history of the mining industry for three weeks. He soon realised that the …
PlaceOrkney, North West Province
… was established around, and known primarily for, its gold mining opportunities, and lies on the banks of the Vaal River … proclaimed in 1940 on the Witkoppen…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… and political ambitions, and the individual actions of mining magnates like Cecil John Rhodes, resulted in a slow … attention on rebuilding the country, in…
PlaceKruger House Museum
… the verandah were given to Kruger by Barney Barnato, the mining magnate, as a birthday present in 1896. Paul Kruger …
ArchiveForeign African labour in South Africa
… of foreign labour, recruitment of foreign labour in the mining industry from 1889-1960, foreign labour and recent developments in the gold mining industry,…
ArchiveVisualising the web of state capture, November 7, 2016
… at UCT/ AIMS ) and I have collaborated regularly on text mining tasks in the past so we decided to take a look at the … derived from the report detail…
ArchiveRudd Concession by King Lobengula of Matabeleland (1888)
… as soon as the said grantees shall have commenced to work mining machinery within my territory; and further, to deliver … and desiring to obtain grants and…
The South African War
… in southern Africa would have been inevitable before the mining industry could become a more important driving force …
BiographyDavid Hepburn Craighead
David Hepburn Craighead was born on 18 December 1918, in Benoni, in what was known as the Transvaal Province (Gauteng). He was born to parents of English and…
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… into Remgro (an investment company with financial, mining and industrial interests) and Richemont (a Swiss based … US dollars. With interests ranging from…