mining in south africa during apartheid

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  Diamonds and Migrant Labour in South Africa, 1869-1910

  2  · 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. Racial discrimination in South Africa is based on the migrant labour system. Unlike other South Africans, Africans are treated as foreigners outside strictly defined ...

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  Apartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's | South …

  2022824 · This article therefore distils accumulation by dispossession’s three central features of coercion, non-voluntary consent and corruption to enhance its local explanatory power of material and incorporeal dispossession in post-apartheid South Africa.

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  Migrant Workers, Artisanal Gold Mining, and “More-Than …

  2020106 · The South African mining industry’s demarcation of diggers said to belong in South Africa from diggers thought not to belong is also linked to longstanding identification and spatial exclusion tactics that South Africa’s industrial mining sector devised to manage underground extractive labor, which were eventually transferred to apartheid ...

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  Migrant mineworkers and South Africa’s diplomatic relations …

  20221115 · It evaluates the quest for migrant mineworkers by apartheid South Africa and the rationale for their consistent supply by Botswana and Lesotho during their colonial and democratic dispensations. Furthermore, this research also interrogates the effects of consistent demand-supply cooperation on migrant mine workers for more than 100 years.

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  ‘Illegal’ gold mining and the everyday in post-apartheid South Africa

  This paper examines unregulated gold-mining activities prevalent at disused mines and decommissioned shafts at operating mines in post-apartheid South Africa. This kind of mining is deemed illegal ...

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  Racialized Identity Under Apartheid in South Africa

  201927 · This article therefore traces the history of racial identity in South Africa as ultimately expressed under the apartheid state by focusing on the colonial era, the economic impact of mining, the formulation of scientific thought on racial distinction, the segregation era, and, ultimately, the apartheid state.

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  South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid

  Industrialization and British imperialism in South Africa, driven by economic and political ambitions, and the individual actions of mining magnates like Cecil John Rhodes, resulted in a slow but steady expansion of manufacturing and transport infrastructure. The British government fashioned a more uniform policy after the South African War of 1899-1902 …

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  Apartheid Era Pass Laws of South Africa - ThoughtCo

  20201210 · Find a description of the Pass Laws in Apartheid-Era South Africa, the contents of the much-hated passbooks, and the consequences of violating them.

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  Gold in South Africa: Lessons from the Apartheid Era

  2021320 · This chapter considers gold at its most recent historical epi-centre—i.e. South Africa during the colonial and apartheid era. For over 130 years gold in Africa has been synonymous with the ...

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