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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Witwatersrand gold mines"”.
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Mammalian Sporothrix infections in southern Africa : researches on their development, dynamics and control
… vegetation), and the other type was found in the Witwatersrand gold mines due to fungal proliferation on the timber props underground, where the disease took on epidemiologic proportions in the early part of the century. Changes in the mining methods have almost eliminated the problem in the …
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Black October : the impact of the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918 on South Africa
… its severity paralysed everyday life, viz. the Witwatersrand gold mines, Cape Town, Kimberley, Bloemfontein and the Transkei. Each of these five chapters concludes with an examination of the results which the epidemic produced locally, in spheres such as housing, sanitation, welfare schemes, the …
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Basotho and the mines : towards a history of labour migrancy, c.1890-1940
This thesis examines how Lesotho came to depend on the export of its men to South African mines; what the experiences of these men were; and how all this impacted on Basotho society during the years between c.1890 and 1940. The thesis is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the context and …