Migrant Workers and Mining "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. Migrant labour provided abundant cheap African labour for white-owned mines and farms (and later factories) and, at the same time ...
South Africa. Diamonds and Migrant Labour in South Africa, 1869-1910. The 'pass laws' and migrant labour of apartheid in South Africa today have their origins in the policies designed to control the black workers in the diamond mines a century ago. Racial discrimination in South Africa is based on the migrant labour system.
Mining has had much to do with the pattern of housing in South Africa today. Under apartheid, the mines housed black mineworkers, classed as migrants, in high-density compounds, while giving white ...
The gold mining industry depended on African migrant workers from both within and outside of South Africa. Traditionally the migrants had been a stable and reliable source of labor and during the late 1930s, the number of South African migrant workers was up, as the Native Recruiting Corporation secured the labor of many workers.
Jan 01, 1986· 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.
May 27, 2005· 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 later factories ...
work in South African mines. 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 from Lesotho and Swaziland (Lucas, 1985; Harington, McGlashan and Chelkowska, 2004). This
Several of the relevant sectors employing migrant workers in South Africa, and the particular HIV vulnerabilities faced by these workers are presented below. Mining A study conducted by Crush et al in 2000 estimated that about 60% of workers in the mining sector in South Africa
Diamonds and Migrant Labour in South Africa, 1869-1910. The 'pass laws' and migrant labour of apartheid in South Africa today have their origins in the policies designed to control the black workers in the diamond mines a century ago. Racial discrimination in South Africa is based on the migrant …
Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining Economy Book Description: In tracing the development of the recruiting system, Alan Jeeves shows how a large proportion of the labour supply came to be controlled by private labour companies and recruiting agents, who aimed both to exploit the workers and to extract heavy fees from the employing companies.
Mining, and more particularly gold mining, is a crucial sector of the South African economy, in terms of contribution to the national product, foreign ~xc~ange earnings and employ ment. Thus in February 1979 the mines employed a total of 667 000 workers, 69 000 white and 598 000 black,6 in an econ
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 …
by South Africa (SA) and hence economically dependent, to a large extent, on the export of migrant labour to SA. Lesotho contributes more than 50,000 migrant workers to the South African mining industry. In fact, a recent study by Girdler-Brown et al2 shows a heavy burden of silicosis,
The life of living in a home so far away from home is the story of over a century of migrant, mostly black, labourers who the mines have been recruiting from across the region since the first big discoveries of gold in the former Transvaal in 1896. They would pick up much of the cheap, unskilled, often illiterate labour from within South Africa ...
May 04, 2019· 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. But it is also unique in the extent to which urbanization, industrialization, and rural transformation have been molded by ...
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.
In South Africa, mine closure (especially in the goldmine industry) has also been common practice over the past two decades. In the process, the number of workers employed in the goldmine industry ...
Apr 10, 2018· 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. Qualitative and quantitative data were ...
This paper investigates whether the massive percentage of migrant workers employed in South Africa's mining industry for a long period in the past might be one of the main explanations for the high HIV prevalence in Swaziland and Lesotho. We hypothesise that mining activities might influence the risk of HIV infection through three channels.
Oct 06, 2020· Abstract. 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 Gauteng and Free State Provinces, where informally extracting gold from closed shafts is a crime.
The development of South Africa's mining industry, and how it laid the foundations for Apartheid Although some mining had taken place in what is now South Africa centuries before Europeans arrived, 1 the modern mining industry emerged as the major shaper of South Africa's economy and race relations in the latter half of the 19 th century ...
Compound (migrant labour) A compound is a key institution in a system such as that which regulated labour on mines in South Africa from the later nineteenth century. The tightly controlled closed compound which came to typify the phenomenon in that country originated on the diamond mines of Kimberley from about 1885 and was later replicated on ...
Labour migration in Africa is largely intra-regional (80%) 1 and mainly characterized by the migration of low-skilled workers. Of great importance in the region is the consolidation of significant South-South migration corridors to neighbouring labour markets in the search for a job and better wages. Indeed, today, there are few African countries not participating in migration flows, whether ...
May 02, 2012· Total employment in South African mining bottomed out in 2001 at 406,000, before recovering a little. Now that the mines prefer South African workers, who can more easily be "stabilized," migrants from Lesotho have been retrenched, so that by late 2010 the number of mineworkers from Lesotho was estimated to be fewer than 43,000.
Jun 25, 2020· In this article. South Africa's platinum and gold mines are facing delays in bringing back thousands of key migrant workers from neighboring countries, hobbling their efforts to ramp up output ...
PIP: The impact of the migrant mine labor system in South Africa on transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was assessed by reviewing the literature on epidemiology of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV, and interviewing at length 20 male miners and 24 women supporting themselves near the mines as prostitutes or mistresses.
Bourke-White made an effort to understand the dynamics of the migrant labor system that provided the manpower for the mines around Johannesburg. The impoverished land to which Africans were confined made labor in "white" areas of South Africa a necessity, whether on farms, in mines, or domestic work in white homes. Although many miners came…
Apr 01, 1991· Production and profit in the South African gold mining industry have long been based upon the employment of cheap black migrant labor. The central institution in the migratory labor system is the compound or hostel. Over 97% of the mine workforce of 500,000 currently live in these single-, regimented barracks.