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Living conditions of mine workers from eight …

1. Introduction. The workforce of the South African mining industry (SAMI) was traditionally housed in single- mining compounds or hostels from the late 1800s (Marais & Venter, Citation 2006; Republic …

A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa

Download Citation | A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa | Our purpose is to record and to explain the widely changing numbers of the huge total of black workers on the ...

Swazi migrant workers and the Witwatersrand gold mines …

At the core of southern Africa's industrial revolution were the gold mines of the Witwatersrand. The insatiable needs of the gold mining industry for cheap, unskilled black labour and the struggles of African communities to maintain a rural productive base led to the emergence of South Africa's notorious migrant labour system.

Foreign Migrant Labour for South Africa

FOREIGN MIGRANT LABOUR FOR SOUTH AFRICA 385 mines for this labour. It was succeeded in 1900 by the Witwatersrand ... ployment and movement of Africans within South Africa, workers do ... (Wilson op. cit. p. x) and flows of foreign migrant labour to South Africa in 1970 (Breytenbach op. cit). Inset: Wenela Recruiting Depots in Malawi …

A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa

For more than a century, 90 percent of those employed in the mining sector in the Republic of South Africa were black and about 60 percent were migrant workers …

The Impact of Basotho Migrant Labourers' Retrenchment …

The migration of Basotho men in search of employment opportunities in South African diamond and gold mines dates back to the 1800s. The South African …

Lesotho: From Labor Reserve to Depopulating Periphery?

Second, the number of workers from Lesotho in the mines of South Africa increased substantially as real wages rose in the 1970s and 1980s and Lesotho became a preferred source of labor. Their numbers have since declined — dramatically since the late 1990s onward — initially as a result of mechanization and relative stagnation in gold …

Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa …

The reserves fulfil the functions that capitalism prefers not to assume – those of social security for the migrant workers. The extreme destitution of the peasant in the reserves was brought about by this situation. Source: Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane, The Political Economy of Race and Class in South Africa.

Migrancy and Male Sexuality on the South African Gold …

conduct of black migrant workers on the South African gold mines in turn with each other and with women. The argument is framed by Foucault's assumption that our manner of defining the psychological character of individuals in terms of their sexual preferences is a recent phenomenon. Thus the psychoanalytic conception of 'homo-

A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South …

southern Africa3. Recruitment for gold mining A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa by J.S. Harington*, N.D. McGlashan†, and E.Z. Chelkowska‡ Synopsis Our purpose is to record and to explain the widely changing numbers of the huge total of black workers on the gold mines of South Africa over the century from 1896 to ...

Migrant Workers Under South African Employment Law

Migrant workers experience vulnerabilities in a number of ways once entering the South African labour market. Recent studies have shown that migrant workers are faced with possible discrimination in the workplace, limited access to formal employment and most specifically in relation to migrants from neighbouring African …

South Africa

South Africa - Gold Mining, Economy, History: Prospectors established in 1886 the existence of a belt of gold-bearing reefs 40 miles (60 km) wide centered on present-day Johannesburg. ... and employed more than 100,000 people (the overwhelming majority of them Black migrant workers). The world's richest goldfield was also the …

The history and health of a nineteenth-century migrant mine-worker

Request PDF | The history and health of a nineteenth-century migrant mine-worker population from Kimberley, South Africa | Trenching by the Sol Plaatje municipality in Kimberley, South Africa ...

Extreme apartheid: the South African system of migrant …

Introduction. The migrant labour system was an historical system, manipulated by capitalist, colonial and apartheid powers as a means of reconciling the conflicting needs for cheap labour in the mines and cities of "white" South Africa, with the desire to restrict black people to rural areas far away from the "white" cities.

South Africa: Overcoming Apartheid

Since the mineral revolution of the late 19th century, "migrant labor" in South Africa referred not only to workers coming into South Africa from neighboring countries, but also to a system of controlling African workers within South Africa. Migrant labor provided abundant cheap African labor for white-owned mines and farms (and …

Class struggle and migrant labor in South African gold mines.

Analyzes changes in the origins and characteristics of migrant workers from the late 19th century to the present. Explains the political and economic advantages to the government and the mines of using migrant labour on short-term contracts and its relationship with apartheid, the decreasing reliance on labour from neighbouring countries during the …

The History of Migrant Labor in South Africa (1800–2014)

A pervasive system of migrant labor played a fundamental part in shaping the past and present of South Africa's economy and society and has left indelible marks on the wider region. South Africa was long infamous for its entrenched system of racial discrimination.

Migrant Workers in Africa: In Their Own Voices

As a migrant mine worker from Swaziland, Mduduzi Thabethe says he has fewer workplace rights than his South African co-workers. Although all mine workers pay the same amount into the health fund, migrant workers get inferior care and pensions are rare. "If you are a citizen of South Africa, you see you are building your country and you …

Living conditions of mine workers from eight …

This paper describes the living conditions of mine workers from eight mines in South Africa in 2014, and assesses changes made over the previous decade. ... Many of the mine workers …

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

This chapter focuses on undocumented migrants who travel to South Africa in search of better lives and work in the abandoned gold mines and tailings ponds of …

The Impact of Labor Migration on African Families in …

(Matlosa, 1995: 1). Labor migration may also be either internal (where migrant workers remain in their country of origin) or external in nature (where migrant workers move temporarily from * Department of Sociology, Rand Afrikaans University, P.O. Box 524, Auckland Park, Johannesburg 2006, South Africa

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

Migrant Workers, Artisanal Gold Mining, and "More-Than-Human" Sousveillance in South Africa's Closed Gold Mines October 2020 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46327-4_12

Labour migration, settlement and mine closure in South Africa

This article refers to two case studies of mining and migrant labour in South Africa. In the first case study, we explore the impacts of mine closure in the Free State Goldfields and argue that ...

Research Article THE HISTORY AND HEALTH OF A NINETEENTH-CENTURY MIGRANT

South African Archaeological Bulletin 65 (192): 185–195, 2010 185 Research Article THE HISTORY AND HEALTH OF A NINETEENTH-CENTURY MIGRANT MINE-WORKER POPULATION FROM KIMBERLEY, SOUTH AFRICA A.E. VAN DER MERWE1,3, D. MORRIS2, M. STEYN3 & G.J.R. MAAT1 1 Barge's Anthropologica, Department of …

Migration Data in the Southern African Development …

Black populations in South Africa, former Rhodesia and Namibia were generally oppressed under the apartheid regime. Migrant labour routes expanded beyond South Africa's Kimberley and Witwatersrand mines to Zambia and Botswana. 1948 – Apartheid begins in South Africa; 1960s – Copper mining in Zambia draws migrants to …

Mines and Labour Migrants in Southern Africa

Abstract. Jonathan Crush, Alan Jeeves and David Yudelman, South Africa's Labor Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines (Westview Press: …

Changes in Migrant Labour in Lesotho

A good chunk of the wage earned by the miner is spent in South Africa rather than getting shipped back home, and some miners have second families on the mines, meaning even less money gets repatriated. ... For many homes of migrant workers, this is the only source of income they have. A family may have someone living with them who collects a ...

Migrant Labour in South Africa

The meeting considered the histories and trends for migration for work within and into South Africa. It analysed how the crisis on South Africa's platinum belt that led to the massacre of 36 miners at Marikana in 2012 has revealed the current material, social and political concerns of workers in the mining industry. It considered the role of ...

Mines, Migration and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa

Swaziland and Lesotho have the highest HIV prevalence in the world. They also share another distinct feature: during the last century, they sent a large numbers of migrant workers to South African mines. This paper examines whether participation in mining in a bordering country affects HIV infection rate.

5. The mining industry, migrant labour and hostels

The Commission further recognizes that, from the point of view of the migrant worker, he is divided in half as a human being. That is: a labour unit working at a mine and a family man with his family in the rural areas. ... Its holding company is Johannesburg Consolidated Investments, another of South Africa's six mining houses.. The history ...