GOLD AND WORKERS 1886 - 1924
PART ONE
South Africa before Industrial Times The Gold Rush Deep Level Mining The Randlords
PART TWO
Taxation The Land is Divided Unequally The Migrant Workers Labour Recruitment The Contract System The Pass Laws The Compound System The AngIo Boer War And the Mines 1899-19O2
PART THREE
Black Workers Boycott the Mines Migrant Workers White Workers and the Colour Bar Black Workers’ Resistance on the Mines The Divided Workers
Mine Crew Underground
QUESTIONS OF A WORKER READING HISTORY WHAT'S IN A NAME - Names change, in our racial society, the confusion remains. MAKING OF GOLD - Gold - an industry which feared neither locusts nor cattle diseases, neither drought nor summer floods.’ RESERVES AND POVERTY - In 1913, the South African government made a law, which divided the land between blacks and whites. PASS LAWS - The pass was a document of a labour control. Any white or policeman could stop any African and ask to see his pass. RACISM - the division of people by the colour of their skins. COMPOUNDS - There, all the workers were housed in large buildings next to the mines, where workers ate and slept together. SONGS AND POETRY - People have always expressed their times throught different art forms.
PETER ABRAHAMS