The Impact of Basotho Migrant Labourers' Retrenchment from …
The migration of Basotho men in search of employment opportunities in South African diamond and gold mines dates back to the 1800s. The South African mining industry …
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Ex-mineworkers search for new livelihoods
Communities in Lesotho are struggling to find new livelihoods as the number of local men employed in South African mines continues to dwindle. With few domestic resources or job opportunities, Basotho men have been migrating to neighbouring South Africa to work in the country's gold and platinum mines for generations. In the 1990s, the money they sent back to …
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Basotho and the Experience
Basotho and the Experience of Death, Dying, and Mourning in the South African Mine Compounds, 1 89 0-1 94O* The discovery of diamonds (in Kimberely) and, later, gold (on the Wit-watersrand or the Rand) in South Africa in the latter half of the 19th century, was a significant turning point in the social and economic history of the southern ...
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(PDF) Basotho and the Expérience of Death, Dying, and
Basotho and the Expérience of Death, Dying, and Mourning in the South African Mine Compounds, 1890-1940 Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines - France doi 10.3406/cea.1998.1975
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Basotho and the Expérience of Death, Dying, and …
Crossing the Caledon River which separates Lesotho from South Africa was seen as entering not only the domain of cannibals Satan or Sodom but also the place of adventure South Africa was seen as profane flatland as way of comparing it …
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Basotho and the Mines: A Social History of Labour Migrancy in …
Large-scale labor migration began in the 1870s and 1880s with the discovery of diamonds and gold in South Africa. South Africa needed labor and turned to neighboring countries like Lesotho. Migrant labor made a significant impact on Lesotho. By 1877 five thousand Lesotho came to work in diamond mines.
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Illegal miners starving underground at Silfontein
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Maloka, Eddy Tshidiso. Basotho and the Mines. A Social History …
Basotho and the Mines. A Social History of Labour Migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c. 1890–1940. Codesria, Dakar 2004. 259 pp. Maps. £14.95; $20.95 - Volume 50 Issue 1. Skip to main content Accessibility help We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites.
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The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines
A few years ago, a mining company was considering reopening an old mine shaft in Welkom, a city in South Africa's interior. Welkom was once the center of the world's richest goldfields.
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Changing the Culture of Migration? Attitudes towards Education …
Until late in the 1990s, employment for unskilled and uneducated able-bodied Basotho men on South African mines was usually available. As a result, the education of male children in most Basotho s was not prioritised. In the 1990s, massive retrenchments took place at the mines, resulting in many Basotho men being retrenched and repatriated. Most of those …
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Basotho and the mines
This thesis examines how Lesotho came to depend on the export of its men to South African mines; what the experiences of these men were; and how all this impacted on Basotho society …
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Basotho and the mines : towards a history of labour migrancy, …
This thesis examines how Lesotho came to depend on the export of its men to South African mines; what the experiences of these men were; and how all this impacted on Basotho society …
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Basotho and the Mines
In this book, the author, Eddy Tshidiso Maloka, sets out to write a history of Basotho miners from the bottom up. That is, he intends to show how Basotho miners shaped their own experiences in the South African gold mines.
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Lesotho: From Labor Reserve to Depopulating Periphery?
In the heyday of South African reliance on Basotho labor in the gold mines, to work in the mines for at least a year or two was a normal part of becoming an adult for men from Lesotho. From the late 1940s through the early 1970s, most able-bodied men could obtain a contract as a novice to work in the mines.
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A voluntary walk to the cemetery? Understanding the migration of
It shows that Basotho men have a long history of migrating to the South African mines in search for employment opportunities. The end of the twentieth century saw job opportunities for Basotho in South African mines diminish, mainly due to the closure of some mines. In desperation, Basotho men resorted to working illegally in the closed mines.
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Technology, Ethnicity and Ideology: Basotho Miners and …
South African Gold Mines. 1 JEFF GUY AND MOTLATSI THABANE Introduction The contours of modern Southern African history have been moulded by the gold mining industry. Since the outcrop reefs were discovered on the Witwatersrand one ... 260 Journal of Southern African Studies The Basotho and Shaft-sinking Anyone acquainted with Lesotho, or with ...
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Labor migration in Southern Africa and agricultural
In Lesotho, only about 2% of the land is arable. Also, the impact of so much migration to South Africa has a direct effect on labor available to Lesotho agriculture. To estimate indirectly the costs of migration, 34 Basotho migrants employed in the South African mines were interviewed in the Nyakosoba area in 1983.
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(PDF) Changing the culture of migration? Attitudes
Until late in the 1990s, employment for unskilled and uneducated able-bodied Basotho men on South African mines was usually available. As a result, the education of male children in most Basotho ...
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Basotho and the Experience
Basotho and the Experience of Death, Dying, and Mourning in the South African Mine Compounds, 1 89 0-1 94O* The discovery of diamonds (in Kimberely) and, later, gold (on the …
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Artisanal Miners, Migration and Remittances in Southern Africa
The CBL findings showed that the decreased number of Basotho men working in South African mines affected the remittances. For instance, in 1991 about R120 million of remittances was sent to Lesotho, and in 2005 the remittances decreased to R400,000.00 (Central Bank of Lesotho 2005).
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Illegal migrant Basotho women in South Africa: …
The influence from their bigger South African neighbour, (especially since Lesotho males of working age are drawn massively for the South African mines) has tended over the years to affect sotho ...
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Basotho and the Expérience of Death, Dying, and Mourning in …
This paper, using the case of Basotho of modem Lesotho, examines the experience of death, dying and mourning in the South African mining compounds during the period 1890 to 1940.
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The Impact of Basotho Migrant Labourers' Retrenchment from South
The migration of Basotho men in search of employment opportunities in South African diamond and gold mines dates back to the 1800s. The South African mining industry has been the source of ...
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Presidency unmoved by 'starving' zama zamas: 'You want us to …
Over 1 000 illegal miners who resurfaced from mines in Orkney and Stilfontein in the North West were arrested recently as the South African Police Service ... Basotho, and South Africans.
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Illegal migrant Basotho women in South Africa: Exposure to
Employment of Basotho men in South African mines declined because of the high preference of employing South Africans and the reduction in job opportunities in the formal sector that forced a rise in large-scale retrenchment (Segatti & Landau 2011:20). Migrant Basotho men were not an exception to this mass retrenchment in the mines.
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[PDF] Basotho and the Mines: A Social History of Labour …
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Emerging trends in the migration of Basotho Miners Preface
Basotho mineworkers, the potential economic consequences of this decision became the subject of intense speculation by policy-makers, analysts, and ordinary Basotho alike. A sudden mass exodus of Basotho mineworkers and their families to take up residence in South Africa could potentially erode the gains made in the last nine years
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Contemporary Life of the Basotho
Portrait of a Basotho man in a Basotho cultural village in Qwa-Qwa. The strongest influence on Lesotho's Basotho is their involvement as labourers in South Africa's mining and productive industry. This represents their main source of income and has affected their practices.
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The Rise and Fall of African Indigenous Entrepreneurs' …
territory forms South Africa's modern Free State province.7 To create the territory into a "labour reserve," colonial authorities effectively under-mined Basotho's agriculture.8 In the nineteenth century, Lesotho emerged as the major supplier of grain to South African mines after the discovery of minerals.
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Basotho Mineworkers and zama zama in Disused Commercial Gold Mines …
Request PDF | Basotho Mineworkers and zama zama in Disused Commercial Gold Mines in Gauteng Province, South Africa | For a long time in the industrial configuration of Southern Africa, many South ...
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