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GOLD AND WORKERS
1886 - 1924


This feature was adapted from the book:
Gold & Workes 1886 -1924
by Luli Callinicos


Introduction 

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


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.