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Up to the 1860s the economy of South Africa was based on agriculture and trade. Then the discovery of diamondst marked the beginning of industrialisation in South Africa. ... Living conditions at Kimberley - …

Historically, many mining companies in South Africa housed their white workforce in towns established and managed by the company and their black workforce in single- …

During the late colonial and apartheid periods, the mining compounds and the migrant labour hostels, which formed a key element of this system, were designed (and functioned) as tools of control ...

The result was an increase in Postmasburg's population from about 19 000 in 1996 to the current 35 000 (Statistics South Africa, 2016). In the process, large informal settlements developed in and around Postmasburg. By 2015, approximately 2500 informal housing structures had been erected, constituting about 25% of Postmasburg's housing.

In this paper the discursive construction of South Africa's quintessential institution of labour coercion and control—the mine compound—is explored. Popular …

Diamond rush. What was this the beginning of? The mineral revolution, which transformed South Africa from an agriculture -based economy to an industrial nation. Describe the 3rd diamond that was found? Found in 1871 and measured 83,5 carats. How did The Big Hole of kimberly form as a result?

The workforce of the South African mining industry (SAMI) was traditionally housed in single- mining compounds or hostels from the late 1800s (Marais & Venter, 2006 ; Republic of South Africa ...

South African Archaeological Bulletin 65 (192): 175-184, 2010 175 ... thought to be those of migrant diamond mine labourers who died between 1897 and 1900. Two historical statements will be tested: ... in closed compounds, where limited contact with the outside world was a measure for preventing illegal diamond trade as

The South African prison system developed alongside and in parallel with the mine compound. De Beers operated both mining compounds and the earliest private prisons in South Africa. The explicit relationship between the mining industry and the industrial scale of state incarceration became clear by the end of the South African War.

South32 and Assmang, two major manganese mining companies in South Africa, said their risk-mitigation strategies are informed by research on the potential health effects of exposure to manganese dust.

The compound in post-apartheid South Africa. Geographical. Review, vol. 82, ... (2020), on the other hand, cite the social and labour plans that are a requirement of mining in South Africa, which ...

Although gold, diamonds, platinum and coal are the most well-known among the minerals and metals mined, South Africa also hosts chrome, vanadium, titanium and a number of other lesser minerals. Key mining facts: In …

By 1942 there were 45 municipalities with beer halls in South Africa. The Star, 1942: "Kaffir beer is becoming big business for the municipalities, with profits in some cases of more than and a rapidly increasing turnover." "In mine compounds, open spaces were used for cultural activities.

Mining towns are a common phenomenon in South Africa. Historically, housing in these towns consisted of privately owned houses (exclusively for white miners, until the mid-1980s), company owned houses and, predominantly until the early 2000s, high density compounds for black miners. Today the mining towns are of various kinds.

South African War of 1899-1902. Over the decades. the perceptions on what caused the war have changed. There is a correlat,ion between the writer's political convictions and aims and the causes that he/she at­ tributes to the South African War. Similarly there is a …

Production and profit in the South African gold mining industry have long been based upon the employment of cheap black migrant labor. The central institution in the …

GENEVA (ILO News) – South Africa has taken significant steps since the end of apartheid to address working conditions in the mining industry, but there is still a lot of room for improvement, said ILO mining specialist Martin Hahn. "More efforts could be made to better implement existing mining regulations, especially when it comes to the ...

Cape in South Africa, through to Lesotho, Mozambique, Malawi and Tanzania—regimes of control varied and were shaped by local and national politics (see eg Beinart 1979; …

CONFLICT ON SOUTH AFRICAN MINES, 1972-1979* I Between October 1972 and December 1979 a series of 81 incidents of resistance occurred on South African mines, many of them violent, in which 205 workers died and 1 168 were injured. These events took place in almost every mining region in the

Semantic Scholar extracted view of "Mining towns and urban sprawl in South Africa" by L. Marais et al.

Maloka, T. (1998) ' Basotho and the experience of death, dying and mourning in the South African mine compounds, 1890–1940 ', Cahiers d'études africaines 38 (149): 17 – 40. Google Scholar

Today, the mining industry remains one of the biggest contributors to the country's economy with an estimated worth of R20.3 trillion (US$2.5 trillion). It is the world's fifth largest mining sector in terms of gross domestic product (GDP), …

Mponeng is a deep-level underground gold mine operating at depths ranging between 3,160m and 3,740m BMD, and currently the deepest mine in the world with development at 3,841m BMD. Potential future mining operations at Mponeng are expected to deepen the shaft bottom to 4,227m BMD. The reef portion being mined at Mponeng is accessible …

RM2FYX7JP – Black miners playing music in a gold mine compound, Johannesburg, South Africa in 1900 RM EMN66M – Johannesburg, South Africa. 21st Apr, 2015. Cars parked in front of the Jeppestown workers' …

Modern mining transformed the South African economy, and by 1980 it contributed 21% of South Africa's GDP, second to manufacturing. Although mining still makes a significant contribution, adding R334 billion to the economy in 2017, its role has decreased, contributing 6.8% of the GDP (Minerals Council South Africa, 2018).

Harmony, a gold mining and exploration company, conducts its activities in South Africa, one of the world's best-known gold mining regions, and in Papua New Guinea, one of the world's premier ...

The development of South Africa's mining industry, and how it laid the foundations for Apartheid Although some mining had taken place in what is now South Africa centuries before Europeans arrived, 1 the modern mining industry emerged as the major shaper of South Africa's economy and race relations in the latter half of the 19 th century ...

The compound in post-apartheid South Africa. Geographical. Review, vol. 82, ... This is the case for the South African mining towns of Gamagara, Ga-Segonyana, Lephalale, ...

Gender and sexuality in the South African mining industry: A historical overview. Historically, same- sexual practices occurred within mining compounds and became part of the occupational culture in the mines. Black mineworkers' patterns of sexuality were merely a component of the multiple cultural expressions that were highly …