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The Rand Rebellion (or Rand Revolt, or Second Rand Revolt) was an armed uprising of white miners in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa, in March 1922. Jimmy Green, a prominent politician in the Labour Party, was one of the leaders of the strike. Following a drop in the world price of gold from 130 shillings (£6 10s) a fine troy ounce in 1919 to …
Account of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
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 had been behind some of the party's support for the African strikers in 1918, was in Moscow when the miners came out in January 1922 and …
Cornish Miners and the Witwatersrand Gold Mines in …
Microsoft Word - Cornish Miners Paper John Nauright.doc. Cornish Miners and the Witwatersrand Gold Mines in South Africa, c. 1890-1904. Introduction. The economy and society of southern Africa was ...
A "Labour War" in South Africa: the 1922 Rand …
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 …
1922 Rand Rebellion
By 1922 there existed six giant mining corporations employing 200 000 workers, approximately 20 000 of whom were white, their work arranged by levels of professional managers and mining engineers. The actual Randlords / mine owners and financiers had their collective voice through the Chamber of Mines, in existence since 1887.
18 Feb 1922
The strike situation continues to improve. There are now 4500 men at work in the gold mines, including 2000 officials. The Miners' Federation has issued orders for ...
White-on-white violence: The 1922 Rand Revolution
The same ANC government reasoning probably also applies to the 1922 Rand Revolution (also referred to as the 1922 Miners Strike or Rand Uprising) when militant white mine workers clashed with the police and the South African military. ... The mine owners' priority was the maximization of profits where deep low-yield gold ore depended entirely ...
"Workers of the World Fight and Unite for a White South …
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 ...
Hundreds of miners leave South Africa gold mine after …
A miner walks at the entrance of a goldmine shaft in Springs, South Africa, Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2023. A group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding around 500 of their colleagues underground for the second day at the mine over a union dispute. Some 15 miners have been injured in scuffles, the head of the mine said on …
Revolution on the Rand
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. Although the Rand has changed almost beyond recognition, many of the historical sites exist, to provide a glimpse of that …
Account of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
Here the red forces were directed by Fisher and Spendiff, two miners' leaders followers of the Communists, and while ardent strike militants, most fervent partisans of the negro workers at the same time. …
1922 Rand Rebellion
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 …
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, ... A Shift Boss at the Van Ryn Estate Gold Mine, he served as a Special Constable during the Revolt and was …
Echoes of the past: Marikana, cheap labour and the 1946 miners strike
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 …
1922 miners' strike ghosts are elusive
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.
Baruch Hirson: The General Strike of 1922
Nonetheless, the white working class of South Africa suffered a major defeat in 1922, even though the action had been confined mainly to miners, and mostly on the Rand. This boded ill for the Labour Party, which emerged from the strike with little glory, for the miners who were crushed, and for the Communist Party which was reduced to a small sect.
Rand Rebellion 1922 | South African History Online
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 …
South African miners strike for higher wages, 1946
Workers at 32 of the 45 mines on the Rand had participated in the strike. Hundreds of workers were arrested, tried, imprisoned, or deported. A total of 1,248 miners on strike were wounded and nine were killed. Although the strike failed to force a raise in wages, it was noted to have been a historical event that catalyzed the Anti-Apartheid ...
OPINION | Peter Volmink: The ghosts of the 1922 miners' strike …
The 1922 white miners' strike (or "Rand Revolt") was the second failed insurrection in less than three decades (the first one being the Jameson Raid of 1895).. About 200 people died in the "Five-day war" and many more injured. It shook the Union Government and the mining industry to the core. The primary cause of the miners' discontent was the …
THE STORY OF THE 1922...
THE STORY OF THE 1922 RAND REVOLT CENTENARY STONE ERECTED IN BRAAMFONTEIN CEMETERY ON MARCH 12, 2022. In about August last year, Flo , SJ de Klerk and I started planning a memorial to the victims of the 1922 Strike/Rand Revolt. As far as we know, there is no other memorial still standing in South …
A Labour War in South Africa: the 1922 Rand Revolution …
all attempts at conciliation failed, a strike began on 2 January 1922, in the mining region close to Johannesburg known as the Witwatersrand, or "the Rand". 9 By 9 January, all white miners ...
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) …
Gold Fields : Rand Rebellion 1922
The Rand Rebellion (or Rand Revolt, or Second Rand Revolt) was an armed uprising of white miners in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa, in March 1922. Jimmy Green, …
Gold Fields : Rand Rebellion 1922
The Rand Rebellion (or Rand Revolt, or Second Rand Revolt) was an armed uprising of white miners in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa, in March 1922. Jimmy Green, a prominent politician in the Labour Party, was one of the leaders of the strike. The rebellion occurred as mining companies, in an effort to counter the rising costs and a ...
Lessons from the 1922 Rand Revolt
Supported by the opposition National Party and the Labour Party, a series of strikes took place, culminating in a general strike in March 1922. They marched under …
The Rand Revolt: when the city of gold bled red
The Rand Revolt: when the city of gold bled red ... 6 March 1922, a general strike was declared in Johannesburg, setting off a rebellion that left the young city's streets drenched in blood. ... the cables claimed that the position of Johannesburg's striking gold miners had been considerably weakened by the "stronger attitude of ...
15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike
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 …
Tracing the 1922 Strike | The Heritage Portal
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 …
The Rand Revolt strikers' stronghold at Fordsburg …
This was in response to intensified exploitation of the miners and a decision by gold-mining industry leaders to replace many white workers with black workers. The …
General strike, South Africa 1922
Nonetheless, the white working class of South Africa suffered a major defeat in 1922, even though the action had been confined mainly to miners, and mostly on the Rand. This boded ill for the Labour Party, which emerged from the strike with little glory, for the miners who were crushed, and for the Communist Party which was reduced to a …
