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South Africa Table of Contents. In 1922 the interaction of economic and ethnic factors produced armed conflict among whites. Strikes had been organized by white miners in 1907, 1913, and 1914 over the conditions of labor and the threat of black competition, with the result that mine owners had agreed to reserve some semi-skilled work for whites.
General J.C. Smuts, a former minister of. mines in South African and the current Minister of Defense and Finance and the. acting minister of Justice in South Africa met with the strike committee on 19. and 22 June 1913 but was unwilling to concede to their demands. On 20 June, police arrested 5 strike.
The Rand Rebellion (Afrikaans: Rand-rebellie; also known as the 1922 strike) was an armed uprising of white miners in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa, in March 1922. Jimmy Green, a prominent politician in the Labour Party, was one of the leaders of the strike.. Following a drop in the world price of gold from 130 shillings (£6 10s) per fine troy ounce in 1919 to 95s/oz (£4 15s) in ...
During the first three months of 1922, at a time when South Africa was gripped by a severe economic depression, 22 000 white employees working in the Witwatersrand's coal and gold mines ...
1913 Mineworkers went on a strike to get management to recognise union rights. The strike changed the nature of politics in South Africa and the state deemed it necessary to ensure that mining production continued at all costs 1916 Compensation for pulmonary TB was introduced 1920 Rand Refinery started 1921 - 1922
Introduction: Background to the Strike. The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different consequences for the various groups in the four former colonies. The union was a victory for the British – especially for the 'uitlanders' (foreigners) and mining magnates – who wanted to unite the country; but it was a defeat for Afrikaners such as ...
The centrality of labor time in South African gold mining since 1886. May 2016 ... During a pro tability crisis between 1913 and 1922, ... the 1987 NUM-led mineworkers' strike when the union is ...
The strike started on 10 January 1922, halting all gold mining activities, from Springs in the east to Randfontein in the west, causing 20 000 White and 180 000 Black mine workers to stand idle. The power stations of the Victoria Falls Power Company, supplying electricity to the gold mines and municipalities, excluding Johannesburg, also shut ...
The South African Labour Movement's Responses to Declarations ofMartial Law, 1913-1922 WesselVisser. Summary The first two decades of South Africa's history is characterised as a period of serious endemic industrial unrest and violence, when the labour movement and capital were involved
African municipal workers strike in Johannesburg. Afrikaaner Broederbond founded. 1920 : Native affairs Act establishes separate administrative structures for Africans. African mineworkers strike. 1922 : Rand Revolt : 1923 : Natives (Urban Areas) Act provides for urban segregation and African …
The 1913 Mineworkers' Strike South African History Online. 1913-14: Campaign of civil disobedience led by Indian human rights activist Mohandas Gandhi. strike. strikers on the Witwatersrand. Mayhem ensued as crowds rioted, stopping trams, forcing staff off the trains, and engaging in destructive behaviour. Throughout the next few years, the state set precedents in its management of labour ...
The General strike of 1922 was one of the most traumatic events in the struggle of the mainly white working class against their employers and the South African state. Although it started as a dispute against wage cuts on the mines, the strike developed into a revolt and ended with the aerial bombardment of portions of Johannesburg and the ...
Miners' Strike. South Africa 1922. Synopsis. In early 1922, white South African workers in the Witwatesrand gold mining region went on strike. The strike soon became a violent rebellion—sometimes known as the Rand Revolt—that pitted the white miners against the mine owners and the government.
In February 1922, the protracted negotiations with the South African Industrial Federation broke down when the Action Group seized control, armed some white miners, and set up barricades. The Star described how mob violence spread alarmingly with bands of white men shooting and bludgeoning unoffending Africans and coloured men 'as though they ...
