The African Mine Workers' Strike was a labour dispute involving mine workers of Witwatersrand in South Africa. It started on 12 August, 1946 and lasted approximately a week. The strike was attacked by police and over the week, at least 1,248 workers were wounded and at least 9 killed.
On 12 August 1946 African mine workers of the Witwatersrand went on strike in support of a demand for higher wages 10 shillings a day. They continued the strike for a week in the face of the most savage police terror, in which officially 1,248 workers were wounded and a very large number officially only 9
The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa. Following the demise of the ICU in the early 1940s, the mine workers were the first to challenge not only their employers, but the racist policies of the segregationist state of Jan Smuts.
The 1946 African miners strike signified a shift in public conscience, and was widely considered the beginning of what would later become the anti-apartheid movement. This strike, " was led by the African Mine Workers Union, whose president, J.B. Marks, was also a leader in the South African Communist Party." (Workers World newspaper, Aug. 29, 1996.
The great South African mine strike of 1946. The time was half a century ago. The place was the gold-laden mines in South Africa. The event would become known as the "great mine workers' strike of 1946
There are no methods under the 6th segment as the duration of the strike was five days, and so each segment is about 1 day. The methods that are not under a particular segment denote the methods used on 4 August 1946, before the strike had officially begun, by the meeting called forth by the African Mine Workers' Union that ended with the decision
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Aug 21, 2012· On August 4, 1946 over one thousand miners assembled in Market Square in Johannesburg, South Africa. No hall in the town was big enough to hold them, and no one would have rented one to them anyway. The miners were members of the African Mine Worker’s Union (AMWU), a non-European union which was formed five years earlier in order to address the 12 to 1 pay
The 1946 mine workers' strike was led by the African Mine Workers Union, whose president was J.B.Marks, he was also a leader in the South African Communist Party. Black workers were introduced to trade unionism by the early struggles of white British
The 1946 African miners strike signified a shift in public conscience, and was widely considered the beginning of what would later become the anti-apartheid movement. This strike, " was led by the African Mine Workers Union, whose president, J.B. Marks, was also a leader in the South African Communist Party." (Workers World newspaper, Aug. 29
- Sol Plaatjies, first Secretary of the African National Congress of South Africa describing the lives of Black miners in 1914. Introduction Thirty years ago, on 12 August 1946, the African mine workers of the Witwatersrand came out on strike in support of a demand for higher wages 10 Shillings a day.
Mar 25, 2008· (1975). The 1946 African mine workers’ strike and the political economy of South Africa. The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics: Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 146-173.
”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A National Struggle.”flyer issued by the ANC Youth League, August 1946 Dimensions Of The Struggle Against Apartheid: A Tribute to Paul Robeson Struggle for Liberation in South Africa and International Solidarity edited by E. S. Reddy
August 1946 has a special and romantic place in the annals of South African history. As an event it is celebrated in the popular history, as a critical marker in the history of the miners' struggles against a labor repressive gold mining industry.' The strike is invoked as a testimony to the capacity of African miners
Mar 13, 2014· There have been 6 significant and controversial mine strikes that have taken place in South African history, they are; 1946 This strike was called “ The African Mine Workers Strike” and lasted for over a week. In this instance workers asked for a wage increase and an estimate of 9 people were killed, with atleast 1200 being injured.
The Native Laws Commission, commonly known as the Fagan Commission, was appointed by the South African Government in 1946 to investigate changes to the system of segregation.Its members were: Henry Allan Fagan, A. S. Welsh, A. L. Barrett, E. E. von Maltitz, and S. J. Parsons.It has been described as "[a]rguably the most liberal official document produced in the segregation era".
Johannesburg Johannesburg History: Johannesburg’s early history is the story of gold. In 1853 Pieter Jacob Marais, a South African prospector, recovered alluvial gold from the Jukskei River, north of what would become Johannesburg. The years that followed brought several modest strikes, but the Witwatersrand Main Reef eluded searchers until 1886, when George Harrison, an Australian
Apr 24, 2013· workers' right to strike in international, regional, and South African labour law. 11 Ben-Israel International labour standards: the case of the freedom to strike ( 1987) 93. 12 Budeli n 1 above at 28-29. 13 Such as the Transport, Mining and Agriculture sectors. 14 Section 39 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa.
History. The Communist Party of South Africa was founded in 1921 by the joining together of the International Socialist League and others under the leadership of Willam H. Andrews.It first came to prominence during the Rand Revolt, a strike by white miners in 1922.The large mining concerns, facing labour shortages and wage pressures, had announced their intention of engaging blacks in semi
Jul 18, 2014· Mining production decreased by 6,5% year-on-year in May 2014, reports Statistics SA. The crippling strike action that began on 23 January in the platinum sector has had a negative impact on total mining production. The largest negative growth rates were recorded for PGMs (-48,5%), other non-metallic minerals (-13,3%) and building materials (-11
Miners' Strike. South Africa 1922. Synopsis. In early 1922, white South African workers in the Witwatesrand gold mining region went on strike. The strike soon became a violent rebellion—sometimes known as the Rand Revolt—that pitted the white miners against the mine owners and the government.
Strike Country Region Year(s) Larger movement African Mine Workers' strike South Africa Witwatersrand: 1946 Alabama miners' strike of 1920 United States Alabama: 1920 United Mine Workers: Anaconda Road massacre United States Montana: 1920 Industrial Workers of the World: Arizona copper mine strike of 1983 United States Arizona: 1983–86