Research Article THE HISTORY AND HEALTH OF A NINETEENTH-CENTURY MIGRANT
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 139: 109–125. Williams, G.F. 1902. The Diamond Mines of South Africa: Some Account of their Rise and Development. London: Macmillan. Worger, W.H. 1987. South Africa's City of Diamonds. Mine Workers and Monopoly Capitalism in Kimberley, 1867–1895. London: Yale University Press.
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A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa
Our purpose is to record and to explain the widely changing numbers of the huge total of black workers on the gold mines of South Africa over the century from 1896 to 1996. These men …
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Diamonds and Migrant Labour in South Africa, 1869-1910
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. Rob Turrell | Published in History Today Volume 36 Issue 5 May 1986. Racial discrimination in South Africa is based on the migrant labour system. ...
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A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa
southern Africa3. Recruitment for gold mining A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa by J.S. Harington*, N.D. McGlashan†, and E.Z. Chelkowska‡ Synopsis Our purpose is to record and to explain the widely changing numbers of the huge total of black workers on the gold mines of South Africa over the century from 1896 to ...
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Exhibition traces migrant workers' journey
South Africa was built on mining, and its mines were built on migrant workers. Millions of black men across southern Africa were forced by economic circumstance and taxes to travel to the city of gold, leaving their families at home. Here they toiled long hours underground in dangerous conditions. Wits Art Museum lays bare their lives.
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A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa
Our purpose is to record and to explain the widely changing numbers of the huge total of black workers on the gold mines of South Africa over the century from 1896 to 1996. …
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Mining Migrant Worker Recruitment Policy and the …
Introduction. From the beginning of the 20th century, a central feature of the South African gold mining industry has been a system of circular migrant labour between the rural areas of Southern Africa and the mines, to …
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Mining and Risk of Tuberculosis in Sub-Saharan Africa
At least a half million migrant workers have been employed in the African mining industry at any one time during the last 2 decades. 11 In large mining countries like South Africa, ... Yudelman D. South Africa's Labor Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines. Cape Town, South Africa: Westview and David Philip; 1991 [Google Scholar] 19.
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South Africa
South Africa - Gold Mining, Economy, History: Prospectors established in 1886 the existence of a belt of gold-bearing reefs 40 miles (60 km) wide centered on present-day Johannesburg. ... and employed more than 100,000 people (the overwhelming majority of them Black migrant workers). The world's richest goldfield was also the most difficult ...
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Mines and Migrants in South Africa
Mines and Migrants in South Africa By ROBERT E. B. LUCAS* Between 1971 and 1978, wages of more than one-half million nonwhite laborers in the South African mines tripled in real terms. In the same period, the nonwhites employed in the mines switched from being 62 percent foreign to 62 percent domestic.' These changes followed a period-from 1911 to
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Migrant Workers, Artisanal Gold Mining, and "More-Than-Human
This chapter focuses on undocumented migrants who travel to South Africa in search of better lives and work in the abandoned gold mines and tailings ponds of Gauteng …
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Grade 8
"Migrant labour" in South Africa referred not only to workers coming into South Africa from neighbouring countries, but also to a system of controlling African workers within South Africa. Migrant labour provided abundant cheap African labour for white-owned mines and farms (and later factories) and, at the same time, enforced racial ...
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Migrant Labour in South Africa
The life of living in a home so far away from home is the story of over a century of migrant, mostly black, labourers who the mines have been recruiting from across the region since the first big discoveries of gold in the former Transvaal in 1896.
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'Not Wholly Justified': The Deferred Pay Interest Fund and …
Interest Fund and Migrant Labour in South Africa's Gold Mining Industry, c.1970–1990 MICHAEL GLOVER (University of the Free State; Leiden University) ... For mine workers recruited outside South Africa – the majority of the mining workforce until the 1970s and for whom deferred pay was compulsory – the interest was paid to the colonies ...
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Migrant mineworkers and South Africa's diplomatic relations with
South Africa's demand for mine workers extended to the whole of Southern Africa and beyond, to countries as far as Libya, Uganda, and China. Using the migration diplomacy …
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Swazi migrant workers and the Witwatersrand gold mines …
At the core of southern Africa's industrial revolution were the gold mines of the Witwatersrand. The insatiable needs of the gold mining industry for cheap, unskilled black labour and the struggles of African communities to maintain a rural productive base led to the emergence of South Africa's notorious migrant labour system.
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Labour migration, settlement and mine closure in South Africa
This article refers to two case studies of mining and migrant labour in South Africa. In the first case study, we explore the impacts of mine closure in the Free State Goldfields and argue that ...
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Labour migration, settlement and mine closure in …
This paper investigates migration patterns in South Africa by focusing on three mining towns (Postmasburg, Rustenburg and Emalahleni) in three different provinces.
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Class struggle and migrant labor in South African gold mines.
Analyzes changes in the origins and characteristics of migrant workers from the late 19th century to the present. Explains the political and economic advantages to the government and the mines of using migrant labour on short-term contracts and its relationship with apartheid, the decreasing reliance on labour from neighbouring countries during the 1970s owing to political changes in …
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A Most Modern Industry: The Migrant Labour System and Crisis …
Edited collection of papers presented at an international conference on 'Transforming Mine Migrancy in the 1990s' held in Cape Town, June 1994. Institute for Democracy in South Africa, Cape Town, 1995. In 1972, around 840,000 foreign migrants worked in the economies of Rhodesia and South Africa. Wilson, Migrant Labour in South Africa, p. 114.
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THE HISTORY AND HEALTH OF A NINETEENTH …
appalling conditions and hazards to which migrant workers were exposed when selling their labour on the mines in the late 19th century. Keywords: Kimberley, migrant labour, mining, palaeo-pathology, skeletal analysis. INTRODUCTION Kimberley came into existence after the discovery of diamonds in what is today the Northern Cape Province of South ...
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Living conditions of mine workers from eight mines in South …
Living conditions of mine workers from eight mines in South Africa Jodi Pelders a,b and Gill Nelson b aImplementation Unit, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Pretoria, ... Republic of South Africa, 2009b). Migrant labourers were employed in the mining industry, and African men had to leave their families in rural parts of ...
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Social insurance coverage for SADC migrant workers in South Africa…
1 INTRODUCTION. Labour migration is an ever-growing global phenomenon. It is estimated that in 2020 there were more than 258 million people living in a foreign country, mostly in pursuit of work and better living standards. 1 This phenomenon is prevalent in Southern Africa with South Africa regarded as the traditional migrant-receiving country and a regional leader in the …
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Extreme apartheid: the South African system of migrant labour …
The migrant labour system was an historical system used to reconcile the conflicting need for cheap labour in the mines and cities, with the apartheid ideology that workers should not reside there ...
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A Most Modern Industry: The Migrant Labour System and Crisis …
During the twentieth century, mining recruits came from three sources: from within South Africa's borders including the so-called Bantustans under apartheid; from the High …
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5. The mining industry, migrant labour and hostels
The Commission further recognizes that, from the point of view of the migrant worker, he is divided in half as a human being. That is: a labour unit working at a mine and a family man with his family in the rural areas. ... Its holding company is Johannesburg Consolidated Investments, another of South Africa's six mining houses.. The history ...
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South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid
Since the mineral revolution of the late 19th century, "migrant labor" in South Africa referred not only to workers coming into South Africa from neighboring countries, but also to a system of controlling African workers within South Africa. Migrant labor provided abundant cheap African labor for white-owned mines and farms (and later factories ...
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Migrant Workers in Africa: In Their Own Voices
As a migrant mine worker from Swaziland, Mduduzi Thabethe says he has fewer workplace rights than his South African co-workers. Although all mine workers pay the same amount into the health fund, migrant workers get …
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Mines and Migrants in South Africa
Mines and Migrants in South Africa By ROBERT E. B. LUCAS* Between 1971 and 1978, wages of more than one-half million nonwhite laborers in the South African mines tripled in real terms. In …
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The Impact of Basotho Migrant Labourers' Retrenchment from South
The research followed a descriptive research design where primary data was collected from a sample of 50 former Basotho mine workers using snowballing and simple random sampling techniques. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected using face-to-face interviews and observation. ... Suping K 2022 "Migrant mineworkers and South Africa's ...
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