" Before the advent of its great mineral revolution in the latter half of the nineteenth century, South Africa was a sleepy colonial backwater whose unpromising landscape was seemingly devoid of any economic potential. ... first, diamonds in 1870 and then gold in 1886 that proved to be the catalyst to the greatest mineral revolution the world ...
Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late nineteenth century, there was a general belief that southern Africa was almost destitutesimilar wealth that had drawn Europeans to the rest of the continent. ... In 2007, gold mining in South Africa employed over 240 000 people and accounted for R49 billion in foreign currency ...
— The African continent is richly endowed with significant mineral, oil and gas resources, including large reserves of gold. As noted in the previous chapter, the continent is home to a large portion of the world's mineral wealth, including 42 per cent of the world's known gold reserves (Bush, 2008, p. 361).The continent's largest producer of gold, …
— The South African War. 1. Discovery of Gold in the Witwatersrand: During the late 19th century, various gold strikes (discovery of gold) occurred in areas in …
The discovery of gold in the late 19th century, specifically in the Witwatersrand Basin, sparked a massive influx of people from all over the world to South Africa. This led to the establishment of several mining …
— South Africa - Economy, Mining, Manufacturing: The economy of South Africa was revolutionized in the late 19th century when diamonds and gold were discovered there. Extensive investment from foreign capital followed. In the years since World War II, the country has established a well-developed manufacturing base, and it has experienced …
— This lesson focuses on the changing balance of power in South Africa brought about by gold mining, and the foundations of racial segregation by exploring …
The 'pass laws' and migrant labour of apartheid in South Africa today have their origins in the policies designed to control the black workers in the diamond mines a century ago. ... Migrant labour has ensured a supply of cheap wage labour to the mining sector and secondary industry, and is a system which has been condemned throughout the world
— Footnote 47 The concurrent development of gold mining and finance in Johannesburg turned South Africa into an epistemic testing ground for various economic …
THE ORIGINS OF the forced labor system in the Witwatersrand, South Africa, can be traced back to the opening up of intensive gold mining in this region during the 1880s. For almost a century since then, forced labor in the mining industries of the Witwatersrand has characterized the South African economy.
( 1-41 ), "the late nineteenth century and first decades of the twenti eth century witnessed the apogee of the global mining industry" (1). Most of the famous gold rushes of the nineteenth century, of course, took place before this — California, Australia, and Canada's Fraser Valley were all mid-nineteenth century phenomena. But
— South Africa - Colonial Economy, Resources, Trade: From 1770 to 1870 the region became more fully integrated into the world capitalist economy. ... Gold mining; The road to war; The South African War (1899–1902) Reconstruction, union, and segregation (1902–29) ... who were persuaded by missionaries in the early 19th century to change …
in Late-Nineteenth-Century South Africa ABSTRACT The development of deep-level mining on the Witwatersrand, South Africa, in the mid-1880s and the concomitant increase ... gold mines, which, as Rob Turrell (1982:46) has argued, became "the most important site for the organisation and control of the labour force."
century, non-gold mineral exports (at R27 billion) exceeded the value of gold exports, testimony to the resilience and growth of the non-gold sector. Gold, with exports valued at R25 billion, was by itself responsible for one-sixth of South ... South Africa's 'mining nation': The total population of these areas is 5.7 million, and on ...
— The discovery of gold and diamonds in South Africa in the late 1800s transformed the country into a mining giant in Southern Africa. The South African mines needed a large number of mine workers ...
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. Important diamond deposits were discovered at Kimberley in 1869. Gold was
It was the discovery and exploitation of, first, diamonds in 1870 and then gold in 1886 that proved to be the catalyst to the greatest mineral revolution the world has ever known, …
Two other gold rushes occurred earlier in the 19th century in the United States. With the heightened interest in Bitcoin and dramatic fluctuation in value this year, it is an opportune time to look back at the 19th-century quest to gain riches with American gold rushes. Instead of just digging into the history of the forty-niners (no, not the ...
— Mining in South Africa has underpinned the modern economic development of the country, while it is possible that the industry has now passed its peak and is a sunset industry as the gold and platinum mines go ever-deeper to exploit new resources. ... Throughout the rest of the twentieth century the gold mining industry continued …
Filling an important gap in literature on nineteenth-century British imperialism and Anglo-African-Afrikaner relations, this insightful book uses the JSE as a lens to carefully expose the structures and agency of global finance in the outbreak of the South African War, and the making of South Africa as a unified colonial state.
From Ancient Egypt to South Africa: Origins of Mining and Metallurgy in Precolonial Africa ... which were smelted to produce iron in the late 19th century. 42 In southern Africa, gold was mined using alluvial techniques on the ... Bisson suggests that some groups in the modern Democratic Republic of Congo may have roasted copper ores in the ...
— In addition, other kingdoms arose to compete with the Songhai for a share of the gold trade, especially to the west the Bornu Empire (1396-1893 CE) near Lake Chad, Hausaland (c. 1400 - c. 1800 CE) between the Niger River and Lake Chad, and, in the south, the Kingdom of Benin (13-19th century CE) in modern-day Nigeria.
The first recorded discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand was made by Jan Gerrit Bantjes in June 1884, on the farm Vogelstruisfontein, and was followed soon thereafter, in …
Cornish Miners and the Witwatersrand Gold Mines in South Africa, c. 1890-1904. Introduction. The economy and society of southern Africa was greatly altered by two …
— Diamond and platinum rushes. In the 1860s, two notable diamonds were unearthed; The 21-carat Eureka diamond and the 83-carat Star of South Africa, inspiring a diamond rush in the region aided by the more established coal industry.
— Lindsay Weiss explores the relationship between the 1886 'closed labour compounds' of the South African diamond industry, the concentration camps of the 1899-1902 Anglo-Boer war, and the german …
— The Diamond Mines of South Africa, G.F. Williams, Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, Vol. 15, pp. 392-417, (1887). The author describes in detail the main diamond …
— Adapting to Thrive: PwC's Andries Rossouw on the future of mining in South Africa. Some of the factors influencing the future of gold in SA. Rich Geological Reserves: South Africa, renowned for its abundant gold reserves, has been a major gold producer since the late 19th century, with the Witwatersrand Basin in Gauteng Province being a …
The discovery in i886 of the Witwatersrand gold fields in the South African Republic was arguably the most important of all of these famous nineteenth-century discoveries. The …
3 written by the trade unionists. The most important of these were general histories published in 1926 and 1961, and the biography of trade union leader W.H. Andrews written in the 1940s.2 Most of ...
— Gold fever was as contagious in the 19th century as scarlet fever. For some, the only cure was striking it rich. ... A deep gold mine stretching almost 250 miles was discovered in 1886 on a farm in the Transvaal region of South Africa. The area became a destination for thousands of prospectors from various countries who wanted a stake in …
South Africa experienced a transformation between 1870, when the diamond rush to Kimberley began, and 1902, when the South African War …
— The gold mines rapidly established a pattern of labor recruitment, remuneration, and accommodation that left its stamp on subsequent social and …
— Johannesburg - Gold Rush, Apartheid, Mining: Johannesburg's early history is the story of gold. In 1853 Pieter Jacob Marais, a South African prospector, recovered alluvial gold from the Jukskei River, north of what would become Johannesburg. The years that followed brought several modest strikes, but the Witwatersrand Main Reef eluded …
— Harington, J. S.; N. D. McGlashan and E. Z. Chelkowska. 'A Century of Migrant Labour in the Gold Mines of South Africa'. The Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Vol. 104, No. 2, March 2004, pp. 65–71. Google Scholar Katz, Elaine. The White Death: Silicosis on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines 1886–1910
