Communities, mining corporations and corruption in South Africa
During the apartheid era in South Africa, the mining industry operated without restraint and had undue influence over government decision-making.
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During the apartheid era in South Africa, the mining industry operated without restraint and had undue influence over government decision-making.
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July 27, 2018. Why Global Citizens Should Care. The late David Goldblatt was an iconic South African photographer whose work documents the impact of apartheid rule on people of all ethnicities in the country. These powerful photographs capture life under a system that legally enshrined racial inequality and discrimination.
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Due to a lack of economic development, both countries supplied South Africa with migrant mine workers during the colonial times and continued to do so after their independence, notwithstanding their indifference to South Africa's apartheid system prior to 1994. ... Despite apartheid South Africa's limited political freedoms or lack of ...
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Abstract. 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 ...
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South Africa – Blue Sky Publications (Pty) Ltd - Registration Number: 2005/028472/07 - Address: Regus Business Centre, 1st Floor, Block B, North Park, Black River Park, 2 Fir Street, …
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The absence of data on asbestos-related disease during the lifetime of the South African industry under apartheid is noteworthy because of the South African government's intensive program of surveillance and control of the movement of blacks and what political scientist Deborah Posel called the National Party's "mania for measurement ...
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Key causes of the disaster were the exponential increase in demand for coal following the opening of the Taaibos power station in 1954 on the one hand, and the …
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Segregated mining towns, which dated back to the nineteenth century, laid a foundation for South Africa's apartheid system, which was formally introduced the year after Welkom was founded.
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South Africans queue in the early morning sun to cast their votes in the mining settlement of Bekkersdal, west of Johannesburg, South Africa, May 8, 2019. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) Elon Musk, the CEO of …
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Francis Wilson, Minerals and Migrants: How the Mining Industry Has Shaped South Africa, Daedalus, Vol. 130, No. 1, Why South Africa Matters (Winter, 2001), pp. 99-121
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She argues in her 1986 book that although economic policy may have seemed at times to favour capital in the form of the mining and manufacturing sectors, systems such as statutory job reservation for whites began to hinder growth in the manufacturing sector. ... Labour markets during apartheid in South Africa. Economic …
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Supplied. Dispossession in South Africa is associated with the period of colonialism and apartheid. As a result, not much consideration is given to how previously marginalised black communities ...
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Mines in South Africa. Explore the responses by leaders of the African National Congress to the new Union of South Africa government's racially motivated …
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Mining, main source of the country's wealth, contributed significantly to developing South Africa into one of the leading economies in Africa and the Third World. But mining has also caused ...
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LABOUR MARKETS DURING APARTHEID 1103 The reservation of specific occupations for ethnic groups, later named job reservation by the apartheid government, became a feature of the growing mining industry from the end of the nineteenth century.21 English-speaking skilled workers tried to restrict access to their jobs by preventing …
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Senzeni Zokwana stated that the mining industry was one of South Africa's major employers in the apartheid era. He explained that the industry was very racist during apartheid, and gave the example of the Mines and Works Act, which prohibited black workers from holding high positions. South Africa
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Abstract. 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 ...
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Surprisingly little attention has been paid to identifying and measuring how apartheid affected neighbouring countries, such as Mozambique and Malawi, which …
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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. Rob Turrell | Published in History Today Volume 36 Issue 5 May 1986. Racial discrimination in South Africa is based on the migrant labour system. Unlike other South ...
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The growing concern is that the platinum mining industry in post-apartheid South Africa is characterised by fragmented and precarious work (Chinguno, 2013, p. 33). As such, like gold mining, it relies on a massive African migrant labour force, low wages, and poor working and living conditions to bolster its profits (Mnwana and Capps, 2015).
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A history of mining in South Africa. M ining in South Africa has been a contentious issue since 15-year-old Erasmus Stephanus Jacobs discovered South Africa's first diamond, the Eureka, in Hopetown in 1867. It kickstarted what historians call the Mineral Revolution, which made few European opportunists wealthy beyond measure, and saw …
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How waste from the mining industry has perpetuated apartheid-like policies in South Africa. November 16, 2023. By. Melissa De Witte, Stanford News. …
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Whereas during Apartheid, the mining industry operated without restraint and had undue influence over government decision-making to create an enabling operational environment to maximise profits at the expense of people and the environment, this practise is still present in post-Apartheid South Africa, although to a lesser degree.
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Apartheid Legislation 1850s-1970s. 1856-1910. Masters and Servants Acts of 1856. These Acts, which had been passed between 1856 and 1904 in the four territories, remained in force after Union. They made it a criminal offence to breach the contract of employment. Desertion, insolence, drunkenness, negligence and strikes were also criminal offences.
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Labour unions have played an integral role as a voice for social transformation in South Africa. During apartheid, their objectives were distinctly political. ... the share of public and mining ...
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This is a map of the indigenous regions of South Africa which were set apart during apartheid for indigenous peoples. As you can see, they are clustered …
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Johannesburg - Apartheid, Mining, History: These transformations were not lost on white political leaders. On the contrary, the future of Johannesburg and other South African cities became the central issue in the 1948 national election. Jan Smuts' United Party, while defending its commitment to white supremacy, argued that complete segregation was …
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South Africa during the apartheid era. For over 130 years gold in Africa has been synonymous with the Witwatersrand which has produced 40% of the gold that was ever mined.1 From 1887 until 2018 1.7 billion ounces of gold were extracted from the South African mines, mostly in the Witwatersrand. In 2018, South African gold production …
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By Corruption Watch 25 Jan 2023, 12:57. In part two of our new two-part mini-series on gold laundering, we look back into South Africa's gold mining history and the role which gold laundering played in financing the apartheid government's attempts to cling to power. Part one set the scene as it is today, and looked at possible measures to ...
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The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was launched on 1 December 1985, at the height of the struggle against apartheid. As a federation, it brought together many of the unions formed after the wave of strikes at the beginning of 1973 which marked a renewal of trade union activity after a decade-long lull.
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How waste from the mining industry has perpetuated apartheid-like policies in South Africa. November 13, 2023. Read this article on the Stanford Report website. Through studying the residues of South Africa's mining industry – a core infrastructure of the …
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Manjati is part of a legal team that is scouring the South African countryside, trying to find the tens of thousands of men who poured into the country's gold mines during apartheid. Siponono ...
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