About Rand Club – Rand Club
At the beating heart of Johannesburg's historic business district, astride its plunging seam of gold, stands Rand Club – a timeless South African icon. ... Miners' strike - Rand Club besieged. April 1947. Royal visit to Rand Club. June 2005. Fire devastated the Clubhouse. 2006.
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Randsburg, California: Mine Blown
To this day it is run by the residents of the Rand Mining District. Even more that a hundred years later, there remains life in these hallowed hills. Once a year the Randsburg Old West Day happens here, and the town lives on in spirit and prosperity. Not quite like the gold strike of yesteryear, but enough to keep the town and the museum alive.
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Tracing the 1922 Strike
Known as the 1922 Miners' Strike, Rand Revolt or even Red Revolt, occurring merely five years after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, it remains the greatest violent political upheaval on the Witwatersrand (Rand). ... A strike on the gold mines also seemed imminent when the Chamber informed the SAIF on 28 December 1921, that it still ...
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South Africa's rand steady ahead of gold strike | Reuters
South Africa's rand was steady against the dollar on Tuesday ahead of a strike in the gold sector and a week of key data releases in the United States.
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South African mine wage demands roil shares, rand | Reuters
NUM, a key political ally of the ANC, is seeking an entry-level minimum monthly wage of 7,000 rand ($750) for gold and coal surface workers and 8,000 rand for those underground, according to the ...
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Exclusive: South Africa's NUM seeks 15-60 percent wage rises from gold
NUM said it was seeking an entry-level minimum monthly wage of 7,000 rand ($750) for gold and coal surface workers and 8,000 rand for those underground in a submission to the country's Chamber of ...
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South African gold miners ease some pay demands as strike …
South African gold miners ease some pay demands as strike bites. By Sherilee Lakmidas and Ed Stoddard. ... which would take it to 8,000 rand ($770) a month from 5,000 rand.
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Cornish Miners and the Witwatersrand Gold Mines in …
to miners from other areas who came to the Rand. During this period there was a fundamental debate over whether the mines, and indeed the society, would be based on white industrial labor,
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Gold One gets interdict against strike, 500 miners allegedly …
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 (AMCU).. The interdict, which the Labour Court granted against the AMCU and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Monday, prohibits the …
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22 Mar 1946
JOHANNESBURG, March 21.—The Mine Workers Union executive has unanimously agreed to the Government's proposal for a judicial ...
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1922 Rand Rebellion
By the end of 1921 the seething industrial antagonisms reached breaking point. Mine owners faced a falling gold price and rising mining costs, discernible through sustained white miner gains since 1915, including …
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Locating the Victims of the 1922 Rand Revolt
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 …
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Strong rand prompts a strike
On Monday, the dollar fell to 6.6786 rand from 6.7310 rand on Friday. The Johannesburg-based Harmony Gold Mining has cut 11,000 jobs in the past 12 months, in a country with a 26 percent jobless ...
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Gold Miners' Strike in South Africa is Still Going on Owing
The strike in South Africa's gold mining sector is now in its second week, with no deal reached between the mining corporation Sibanye Stillwater... Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube. ... Gold Miners' Strike in South Africa is Still Going on Owing to a …
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The Sinking South African Rand And Gold Miner ETFs
By Paul Baiocchi. A crumbling rand has real implications for investors holding gold miner funds. A massive strike at platinum mines in South Africa has set off a domino effect, inspiring similar ...
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South African Gold Miners' Strike Brings Mining to a Halt
The strike paralyzed operations at the world's No 2 gold producer, AngloGold Ashanti, fourth-ranked Gold Fields, sixth-placed Harmony Gold and South Deep, Barker said. He added that the chamber, which negotiates wages on behalf of gold producers, estimated 40,000 ounces of gold production were being lost daily, with around 130 million rand ($20 ...
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Transvaal Miners General Strike 1913
mines on the East Rand wend on strike. On 2 July the East Rand Proprietary Mines and five Randfontein mines went on strike. By 4 July, more than 18,000 men and 63 mines struck. By 5 July all of the mines and power stations on the Witwatersrand gold fields (around 19,000 workers) were on strike. On 3 July, in an editorial, The Rand Daily Mail ...
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Talks aim to avert gold miners strike | News
A strike would lead to the loss of around 28,000 ounces of gold production and 79 million rand ($12.21 million) in revenue per day, a Deutsche Securities analyst says.
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THE WHITE 'REDS' OF THE 1922 RAND MINERS' STRIKE
THE WHITE 'REDS' OF THE 1922 RAND MINERS' STRIKE Over the years, the international media taught South Africans and the rest of the world that this country has 'always' been governed by a whole nation of Afrikaners, who exerted enormous pressure on the citizens of other races. However, the sad and extremely violent history of the ...
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The mining industry strike wave: what are the causes and …
The most visible feature of the commentary to date on the events surrounding the mining strike wave is the lack of any analysis as to the economic and socio-political drivers that created an environment where miners, first at Implats and subsequently across the platinum, chrome, diamonds and gold sectors, engaged in unprocedural strike action ...
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South African mine wage demands roil shares, rand | Reuters
Big wage hikes demanded by the government-allied trade union in South Africa's coal and gold industries helped push the rand to a four-year low on Monday, highlighting the ripple effect of the ...
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The Underground Route to Mining: Afrikaners and the Witwatersrand Gold
The Afrikaner miners lacked training and mining skills. Yet, like the overseas professional miners, most of whom were British-born, they were classed as skilled workmen, eligible for skilled wages. This anomaly occurred because the so-called skills of the overseas professional miners were fragmented by the labour practices peculiar to the Rand ...
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Miners' Strike: South Africa 1922
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.
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1922 Rand Rebellion
Negotiations between the strikers and the government broke down, and on 6 March, a general strike was called across the Witwatersrand mines. The strike, which became known as the …
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"If your ox does not pull, what are you going to do?": …
Persistent Violence in South Africa's Deep-Level Gold Mines and Its Contribution to the 1922 Rand Rebellion. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2024.
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Rand Rebellion 1922
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 of work in mining and …
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Grounds for a Strike: South African Gold Mining in the …
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 to revolt against low wages, poor food, compounds and labor …
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Gold Digger: Gold miners catching up to bullion as records …
At US$2732/oz yesterday ($4125/oz), gold miners are staring at conditions they've never seen before, with prices limbing a staggering 37% over the past 12 months.
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Remember Kirkland Lake: 'The Gold Miners' Strike of …
The conciliation board and the strike vote (August–November 1941) Download; XML; Broader support for the impending strike and the final mediation effort Download; XML; The strike Download; XML; Government intervention in the strike Download; XML; The strike is lost Download; XML; The effects of the Kirkland Lake strike Download; XML
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South African wage demands send rand to four year low
Big wage hikes demanded by the government-allied trade union in South Africa's coal and gold industries helped push the rand to a four year low on Monday, highlighting the ripple effect of the ...
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