Topic 6 Contextual Overview
3.2 The Migrant Labour System. The workers that flocked to the Witwatersrand were predominantly from rural areas and were classified as "temporary workers". They ... "A History of Mining in South Africa," South Africa [online], Available at …
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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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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 ...
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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 …
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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 …
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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
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Migrant mineworkers and South Africa's diplomatic relations …
Moreover, South Africa's demand for migrant mine workers enabled capital accumulation at the expense of Lesotho and Botswana. Furthermore, it argues that …
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(PDF) History of Zimbabwean Migration
over 70 Malawian migrant workers. As a result, there were well over 20,000 black ... Zimbabweans working in South Africa's mines in the 1970s, with a peak of 37,900 i n . 1977. 53. In 1981, the ...
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BEING A MINEWORKER IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH …
mineworkers is that the majority of them are migrant workers from the rural areas of South Africa or from neighbouring countries such as Lesotho and Mozambique; these …
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Mining Migrant Worker Recruitment Policy and the …
From the early years following the opening of South Africa's first gold mines in 1886, circular migrant labor from neighboring states and racial stratification of the workforce, closely tied to ...
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A Most Modern Industry: The Migrant Labour System and …
This chapter outlines the basic features of gold mining in South Africa. The structure, administration and economic significance of the mines, the key technical …
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Living conditions of mine workers from eight …
Migrant labourers were employed in the mining industry, and African men had to leave their families in rural parts of South and …
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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 …
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Depopulating the compounds: Migrant labor and mine housing in South Africa
In order to raise the productivity of its migrant workers, the mining industry promoted the concept of "career minework" and adopted various strategies to encourage long-term and continuous mine employment. ... Unit for the Sociology of Development, University of Stellenbosch, 1987). Jeeves, A., Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining …
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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 …
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Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining Economy: The …
Appendix 1: Average Number of Africans Employed on Mines and Works, Transvaal, 1903–20 Download; XML; Appendix 2: Mine Workers Received, wnla Member Companies, 1902–20 Download; XML; Appendix 3: "Voluntary" Labour on Transvaal Gold Mines, 1905–20 Download; XML; Appendix 4: Territorial Analysis of Desertion, wnla Member …
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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 ...
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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 …
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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.
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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: …
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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 ...
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The migrant labour system | South African History Online
Migrant labourers across Southern Africa, from the Transkei (modern day Mthatha) and Rhodesia (modern day Zimbabwe), undertook lengthy jouneys from the kraal to gold and diamond mines seeking employemnt. Migrant labourers were accomodated in hostels on the outskirts of townships.
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NOTES
• Migrant Workers and Mining o "Migrant labour" in South Africa referred not only to workers coming into South Africa from neighbouring countries, but also to a system of controlling African workers within South Africa o Migrant labour provided abundant cheap African labour for white-owned mines and farms (and later factories) and, at the ...
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Migration and health in Southern Africa: 100 years and still
Foreign workers on the mines are generally able to return home less frequently than their South African counterparts, and their partners are less likely to be able to visit them on the mines. ... Natrass J. 1976 The migrant labour system and South Africa's economic development, 1936–1970 (Unpublished PhD thesis). University of Natal.
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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 …
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The history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
African men from the Bantustans and from other neighbouring countries left their families behind to work as contract labourers in the mines. The migrant labour system is the …
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The African Mine workers strike of 1946
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.
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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.
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