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[23] David Brown The Basements of Babylon Language and Literacy on the South African Gold Mines Social Dynamics 14[38] R Adendorff Fanakalo in South Africa in Language and Social History Studies in South African Sociolinguistics ed Rajend Mesthrie Claremont David Philip Publishers 1995 185 ↵ [39] Adendorff Fanakalo in South Africa 187 ↵ [40] Ibid 188
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Get Price· · After the discovery of gold in 1886 South Africa moved from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy because of the growth of the mining industry Accompanying this growth was the influence mining companies had on governments in the region to establish the migrant labour system which guaranteed a steady stream of cheap labour to the mines This labour system
Get PriceThe history of gold mining and gold trade in southern Africa goes back nearly I 000 years Given the number of early gold mines and the records oflively trade on the east coast the scale of precolonial production was clearly extensive and of considerable importance in the economies of some of the region s Late Iron Age kingdoms Few archaeological studies of these gold mines exist however
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Get Pricehistorical background to south african migration • 73 The change in mining methods from opencast to underground extraction in the early 1880s created a need for a stable skilled labour force To achieve this the Kimberley mine owners provided housing for mineworkers in closed compounds Turrell 1987 149 150 By introducing compounds on the diamond fields mine owners ensured a
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Get PriceT T he gold rush saw prospectors from around the world trek up to the Witwatersrand precipitating the Anglo Boer or South African War of 1899 1902 in which the British fought the Boers over control of the then Transvaal and its After the war another wave of migrants entered Johannesburg up to 60 000 Chinese labourers were imported to kick start the mines again only to be
Get PriceSouth Africa Table of Contents South Africa s modern history has often been dated from the first commercial mining of diamonds and gold in the 1870s and the 1880s when the region became a magnet for European investment see Diamonds Mining in the region predated European arrivals by several centuries however as the new government recalled in its minerals policy statements in 1994
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Get PriceMining in South Africa was once the main driving force behind the history and development of Africa s most advanced and richest economy Large scale and profitable mining started with the discovery of a diamond on the banks of the Orange River in 1867 by Erasmus Jacobs and the subsequent discovery and exploitation of the Kimberley pipes a few years later
Get PriceIs there evidence that mining took place in southern Africa during the Old Stone Age Archaeological studies indicate that it indeed was so Realizing that sites of abandoned ancient mines may indicate where gold could be found South Africa s leading mining corporation the Anglo American Corporation in the 1970s engaged archaeologists to look for such ancient mines
Get PriceIn London Charter Consolidated a 1965 merger of the British South Africa Company Central Mining and CMS gave AAC considerable investment opportunities in Africa Europe and Australasia Although diamonds replaced gold as AAC s single most important source of profit in the 1980s and despite wide ranging diversification gold remained at the heart of the group s activities
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Get Price· In the wake of the worst mining violence in South Africa s recent memory 2 500 dispirited black miners were sent home today and gold production curtailed at a major mine
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