on the Rand, not in terms of a progression towards the great strikes of 1913 or 1922, but rather in light of their ambiguous position between the mass of African workers and the developing state ...
The strike began on 1 January 1922, when coal miners refused to take a wage cut that was suggested as a way to help the coal industry, which was suffering. By 10 January, 22 000 gold mineworkers had joined the coal miners. Even though the government tried to get the mine owners and mineworkers to sit in a conference, no agreement was reached.
The gold mining industry of the Rand has been described as the fulcrum of world capital. Twenty years ago the old Boer republics became an obstacle to the Chamber of Mines, and the whole British army was requisitioned to blow them out of existence ...
The strike, which began Sunday night, crossed an important threshold Thursday when the police, using rubber bullets and tear gas, evicted 300 miners at Anglo American Corporation's East Rand ...
Abstract. This article discusses an episode in South African history remembered as the 1922 "Rand Revolution". The strike, involving 25,000 white miners opposed to the removal of the "colour bar", was eventually crushed by a military operation in which 200 people were killed.
In January 1922, during a period of severe economic depression, white coal and gold miners, foundry, and utilities workers downed tools to protest plans to reduce labour costs by employing cheaper black labour. Negotiations between the strikers and the government broke down, and on 6 March, a general strike was called across the Witwatersrand ...
The Rand Revolt of 1922 took place three years after the formation of the I.C.U, when white mine workers went on strike. These workers resisted retrenchment. The strike was …
This article discusses an episode in South African history remembered as the 1922 "Rand Revolution". The strike, involving 25,000 white miners opposed to the removal of the "colour bar ...
mines on the East Rand wend on strike. On 2 July the East Rand Proprietary Mines and five Randfontein mines went on strike. By 4 July, more than 18,000 men and 63 mines struck. By 5 July all of the mines and power stations on the Witwatersrand gold fields (around 19,000 workers) were on strike. On 3 July, in an editorial, The Rand Daily Mail ...
The Underground Route to Mining: Afrikaners and the Witwatersrand Gold Mining Industry from 1902 to the 1907 Miners' Strike* - Volume 36 Issue 3 22 August 2024: Due to technical disruption, we are experiencing some delays to publication.
1922 Rand Rebellion. In January 1922, during a period of severe economic depression, white coal and gold miners, foundry, and utilities workers downed tools to protest plans to reduce labour costs by employing …
The first quarter of 2022 marked the centenary of the great White Miners' Strike on the Rand, also referred to as the Rand Revolt, or even the Red Revolt. ... A Shift Boss at the Van Ryn Estate Gold Mine, he served as a Special Constable during the Revolt and was shot and killed at his home by a mounted striker commando on 10 March 1922 ...
Since the discoveries in the 19th century of diamonds near Kimberley and gold on the Witwatersrand, mining has not only been South Africa's most important industry, but also perhaps its most contentious one politically. ... The 1922 Rand Revolution, Rodney Warwick, Politicsweb, 15 March 2012 Tracing the 1922 Strike, SJ de Klerk, The …
They instead held ballot; the results indicated that most miners were in favour of a strike. 22,000 gold miners downed tools on 9 January 1922. ... They tried to make the Rand ungovernable. Early in March 1922 the mines in Brakpan, Boksburg and Benoni were under siege by the striking force- any attempt by the mine owners to continue operations ...
In 1921 White workers, mainly in the coal and gold mines, went on strike. The reasons for the strike were a reduction of wages and the preference for cheaper Black Labour. This led to an increase in the employment of Black workers in positions previously held by white miners at reduced pay.
Mar 16, 2011 A general strike was organized by white trade unions in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1922. This was in response to intensified exploitation of the miners and a decision by gold-mining industry leaders to replace many white workers with black workers. The strike began in January 1922 and became an open rebellion against the state.
RAND REVOLT Solving a 1922 miners' strike mystery hinges on a 'bulldog' with a metal detector on Joburg's Grassy Knoll. ... Chariots of Fire and a South African orphan's boxing gold.
A general strike was organized by white trade unions in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1922. This was in response to intensified exploitation of the miners and a decision by gold-mining industry leaders to replace many white workers with black workers. The strike began in January 1922 and became an open rebellion against the …
David Ivon Jones was the secretary of the ISL, who had been instrumental in forming the first black trade union - the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA) - and had been behind some of the party's support for the African strikers in 1918, was in Moscow when the miners came out in January 1922 and he took up their cause.
The narrative that many South Africans understand of The Rand Revolt today is one linked to Jan Smuts, sending tanks and aeroplanes to brutally repress a miners strike murdering his own kind – white South Africans, and it is a narrative his opposition, the National Party, used repeatedly to criticise Smuts for political expediency …
About 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion. 9 January 1922. In January 1922 some 22 000 white miners downed their tools and went …
This article discusses an episode in South African history remembered as the 1922 "Rand Revolution". The strike, involving 25,000 white miners opposed to the …
White miners had been organized for many years, but there was little solidarity between the two groups as evidenced by the 1922 Rand Rebellion led by the whites-only Mine Workers Union. White miners went on strike against management's attempt at weakening the colour bar in order to facilitate the entry of cheaper black …
Abstract. This article discusses an episode in South African history remembered as the 1922 "Rand Revolution". The strike, involving 25,000 white miners …
Haulage Men Lead the Windber Miners out on Strike. Joseph Zahurak, a spragger and 1922 strike activist who later served as president of UMWA Local 6186 from 1938 to 1977, offered the below description of how the Windber strike began. They [the miners] come out on the field in 1922. That's when they first get out there.
On 4 August 1946 more than one thousand gold miners assembled in the Newtown Market Square because there was no hall available to black Africans to hold such a large-scale meeting. ... The mass media reported on the decision of the AMWU to strike; the Rand Daily Mail portrayed the strike as a "complete failure" even before it had begun ...
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 …