We Must Speak for Ourselves
The Rise and Fall of a Public Sphereon the South African GoldMines, 1920 to 1931
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2109455 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith Breckenridge (0000-0001-5023-6837, University of KwaZulu-Natal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-108 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417598980033 |
| OpenAlex | W2125500064 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
On the evening of March 17, 1940, about 600 workers gathered together inside the Marievale Consolidated Compound on the far southeastern tip of the Witwatersrand goldmining crescent (see Figure 1). The workers demanded that the gates of the compound be opened, as they intended to march the forty miles to Johannesburg to present their grievances to Henry Taberer at KwaMzilikazi, the headquarters of the Native Recruiting Corporation. At about 8 pm, thirty-five policemen arrived from the nearby towns of Nigel, Springs, and Brakpan and demanded to know what was troubling the workers. After considerable discussion, the policemen discovered that the Marievale mine had run out of the regulation shift tickets normally used to record the labor of African workers and that older tickets were being used in their place. These tickets were printed with the higher wage rates received by workers during the early development of the mine: The mine officials had simply crossed out the 2 shillings and 6-pence rates and stamped the standard minimum of 2 shillings onto each slip of paper. The workers were suspicious about this conspicuous reduction of wage rates, arguing that they were due the original rate established by the Native Recruiting Corporation
Corporation · Evening · Political science · Wage · African history and culture studies · History · Law · South African History and Culture
Fighting for a White South Africa
Restructuring Labour Time
Mchape'95, or, the sudden fame of Billy Goodson Chisupe
Discrimination and favouritism among South African workers
Confronting African Histories of Technology
Lost Causes of the Rand Revolt
From Compounded to Fragmented Labour
The centrality of labor time in South African gold mining since 1886
The allure of violence
Of boys and men
I am a bad native
Chiefs or Modern Bureaucrats? Managing Black Police in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
| Unique citing works | 12 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2019 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |