Gold Mines of the Rand
Gold Mines of the Rand

Author: F. H. Hatch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-06-13

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 1108061664

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This 1895 work covers geological, economic and legal aspects of South African gold mining shortly before the Second Boer War.

The Gold Mines of the World
The Gold Mines of the World

Author: J.H. Curle

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published:

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1143983440

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The Gold Mines of the World (2d edition - 1902). Written after an inspection of the mines of the Transvaal, Rhodesia, India, Malay Peninsula, West Australia, Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, New Zealand, British Columbia, the Klondyke, United States, Alaska and Mexico. Illustrated with plans and photographs.

Accounts and Drawings from the Underground
Accounts and Drawings from the Underground

Author: William Kentridge

Publisher: Africa List

Published: 2021-02-15

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780857428523

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In Accounts and Drawings from Underground, published in 2015, renowned artist William Kentridge and scholar Rosalind C. Morris brought us an unprecedented collaboration, taking pages of the 1906 Cash Book of the East Rand Proprietary Mines Corporation in South Africa and transforming them into something entirely new. While Kentridge contributed breathtaking landscape drawings in response to the transient terrain mining created, Morris plumbed the text of the cash book to generate a unique narrative account. Now, they revisit those ruined mines, with a visual and verbal addendum that provides an account of the ongoing metamorphosis of the world that gold mines created. Kentridge works on the threshold between the visible and the invisible, while Morris mines the unsaid in order to make it understandable. Together they've created a landmark book that chronicles the exploitation of African communities and sheds further light on global Black history. With fifteen stunning new color drawings by Kentridge and an additional coda, this revised edition of Accounts and Drawings from Underground continues its remarkable documentation of the stories of migrant laborers and the flows of capital and desire, providing us with a palpable sense of a vanished world.

A History of African Popular Culture
A History of African Popular Culture

Author: Karin Barber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1107016894

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A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.

The Gold Mines of the Rand: Being a Description of the Mining Industry of Witwatersrand, South African Republic
The Gold Mines of the Rand: Being a Description of the Mining Industry of Witwatersrand, South African Republic

Author: Frederick Henry Hatch

Publisher: Sagwan Press

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 9781376428124

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Basotho and the Mines
Basotho and the Mines

Author: Eddy Maloka

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13:

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This major study of migrant labour in Lesotho, concentrating on the period between 1980 and 1940, considers the position of Basotho migrant workers in South Africa, Lesotho's dependency on migrant labour, and the social and cultural consequences on communities, when men are sent away to work. The author provides in-depth analysis of migrant labour drawing predominantly on primary historical sources, and bringing in aspects of political economy, and cultural and social history. Some of the central questions addressed are: balancing structure and agency; how Basotho migrants coped with death and mourning in the mining compounds; the social history of commercial beer-brewing and commercial sex in Lesotho; the relationship of these factors to the system of chieftainship; and missionaries and the British colonial demonstration. The narrative is framed by the histories of colonialism in Lesotho and South Africa, and assesses the impact of colonialism on the geopolitics of these two interdependent countries.