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 - … were the forerunners of the freedom strikers of May 1, 1950, against the Suppression of Communism Act, and the tens …