The strike by mineworkers on the Witwatersrand, also known as the Rand Revolt, ended on March 18 1922. The rebellion was a response by White mineworkers to a perceived injustice that Black miners were taking jobs that …
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Gold One has succeeded in interdicting a strike in which more than 500 workers are being held "hostage" at its mine in Springs, allegedly by members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union.
The strike started on 10 January 1922, halting all gold mining activities, from Springs in the east to Randfontein in the west, causing 20 000 White and 180 000 Black mine workers …
The 1922 uprising of white mine workers was a culmination of a number of previous strikes in the previous years over pay and working conditions. Following the discovery of gold …
The 1922 white miners' strike (or "Rand Revolt") w as the second failed insurrection in less than three decades (the first one being the Jameson Raid of 1895).
The 1922 strike, also known as the Rand Revolt or the Rand Rebellion, had its origins in the latter part of 1921. It began when the price of gold nosedived. Wages were cut and white miners felt ...
The 1922 strike, also known as the Rand Revolt or the Rand Rebellion, had its origins in the latter part of 1921. It began when the price of gold nosedived. Wages were cut and white miners felt threatened when mines began planning to weaken the colour bar, which had prohibited black workers from certain jobs.
1922 Rand Rebellion. In January 1922, during a period of severe economic depression, white coal and gold miners, foundry, and utilities workers downed tools to protest plans to reduce labour costs by employing cheaper black labour. Negotiations between the strikers and the government broke down, and on 6 March, a general strike was called ...
1922 Rand Rebellion. In January 1922, during a period of severe economic depression, white coal and gold miners, foundry, and utilities workers downed tools to protest plans …
In particular does this apply to the Great Strike of 1922 on the Rand, commonly known as the Rand Revolt, when the workers of the Rand supported the miners against the Chamber of Mines and the Government for which they were brutally shot down by the aeroplanes, machine guns, artillery and rifle fire of the Government troops …
The Rand Revolt -1922. One of the biggest upsets on the Rand was the violent mineworkers' strike of 1922. Much of the news reporting dubbed it "civil war" in its latter stages. The strike lasted 84 days, it started as peaceful demonstrations, but soon turned violent when two Communist leaders tried to use the striking workers as an ...
The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising, also referred to as the Rand Revolt or Red Revolt, which occurred during a period of economic depression following World War I. After the war, mining companies were faced with rising costs and a fall in the price of gold. A general strike was organized by white trade unions in …
This article discusses an episode in South African history remembered as the 1922 "Rand Revolution". The strike, involving 25,000 white miners opposed to the removal of the …
Origins of a Communist Rebellion in South Africa. The Rand Rebellion (also known as the Rand Revolt or Second Rand Revolt – the Jameson Raid was the first) was an armed uprising of white miners on the Witwatersrand mining belt in March 1922. The trigger was a drop in the world price of gold from 130 shillings (£6 10s) a fine troy ounce …
In January 1922 some 22 000 white miners downed their tools and went on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion or the Red Revolt. Eventually martial law was …
The Gold miners' unions were cautious to call a strike, starting January 1 st. They instead held ballot; the results indicated that most miners were in favour of a strike. 22,000 gold miners downed tools on 9 January 1922.
Daily Maverick. The Rand Revolt: when the city of gold bled red. - By Dennis Webster. Acentury ago, on Monday, 6 March 1922, a general strike was declared in Johannesburg, setting off a rebellion that left the young city's streets drenched in blood. During the few ferocious days that followed, gangs of armed white workers carried ...
The Rand Rebellion of 1922 was an armed uprising that is also referred to as the Rand Revolt or Red Revolt. It occurred during a period of economic depression following World War I, when mining …
Synopsis. In August 1946 the African Mine Workers Union (AMWU) in South Africa called a strike of black miners in the country's Witwatersrand gold producing region. The strike was the first widespread action taken by African workers since 1920. Nearly 100,000 black workers struck, completely or partially shutting down 13 mines.
The New Year marked a strike on the collieries of the Transvaal. Strikes soon spread to the gold mines of the Reef, especially those in the East Rand, when electrical power workers and those in engineering and foundry occupations followed suit. By January 10, stoppage …
Account of events: Rand Rebellion 1922. David Ivon Jones was the secretary of the ISL, who had been instrumental in forming the first black trade union - the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA) - and …
Here in 1922, a strike by white mineworkers became a militarised confrontation, the only occasion when the South African state used artillery and aircraft to suppress a workers' rising. This strike would achieve intensities of conflict not to be repeated for decades. Its leaders drew inspiration from a global vision of proletarian …
In January 1922, white coal miners downed tools over further pay cuts. Government mediation failed and the Chamber of Mines threatened with the loss of another 2,000 jobs for white miners, who would then have been replaced by non-white workers. More strikes exploded all over the Witwatersrand that surround Johannesburg.
This paper challenges the conventional view that the 1907 miners' strike constituted a landmark in the history of Afrikaner employment in the Witwatersrand gold mining industry. According to this view, the participation of Afrikaners during the dispute, as first-time miners and strike-breakers, gained them a permanent and proportionally large …
Strike ends as Sibanye and gold miners reach settlement. Gold mine workers have accepted Sibanye-Stillwater's latest offer. A three-month strike at Sibanye-Stillwater's gold operations was called off on Friday after union members agreed to the company's latest offer. Against a wage demand of R1 000 increase in each year of a …
The Rand Revolt of March 1922 was the culmination of a work stoppage throughout the Witwatersrand that had begun that January in the coalfields and then spread to the engineering shops and gold ...
African mineworkers were beginning to realise their collective power, and went on strike at Dutoitspan, Voorspoed and Village Deep mines in January 1911. But they were brutally forced back to work by police and white miners. Many were jailed under the Masters and Servants Act. White union members and the Labour Party turned a blind eye.
The first quarter of 2022 marked the centenary of the great White Miners' Strike on the Rand, also referred to as the Rand Revolt, or even the Red Revolt.The causes of the …
The Rand Revolt breaks out. The end of World War I was followed by a global depression that affected South Africa as well. Soon after the war, in 1918 and 1919, Black workers across economic sectors went on strike. In 1921 White workers, mainly in the coal and gold mines, went on strike. The reasons for the strike were a reduction of …
White miners had been organized for many years, but there was little solidarity between the two groups as evidenced by the 1922 Rand Rebellion led by the whites-only Mine Workers Union. White miners went on strike against management's attempt at weakening the colour bar in order to facilitate the entry of cheaper black …
When AMWU was formed in 1941 black miners earned 70 Rand a year while white workers received 848 Rand. White miners had been organized for many years, but there was little solidarity between the two groups as evidenced by the 1922 Rand Rebellion led by the whites-only Mine Workers Union.
This article discusses an episode in South African history remembered as the 1922 Rand Revolution, a mining strike that led to a military operation of unprecedented and indeed unsurpassed violence ...
On this date in 1922, white miner Carel Christian Stassen was hanged in South Africa for murdering two blacks during the recent Rand Rising. Also known as the Rand Rebellion or Rand Revolt, this rising saw a strike by white miners transmuted into outright insurrection … before being ruthlessly suppressed. This seminal event in 20th …
