The 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… ferment and White Workers The Labour Party was a result of socialist ferment in South Africa in the period before and … 10,000 workers held a meeting at Market Square on Friday, 4 July, police on horseback, wielding pickaxes, broke up the … and death, Botha and Smuts rushed to Johannesburg from Pretoria to negotiate with the strikers. They met at the …