Rand Rebellion

Rand Rebellion

The Rand Rebellion (or Rand Revolt, or Second Rand Revolt) was an armed uprising of Afrikaans and English-speaking white miners in Witwatersrand, Union of South Africa, in March 1922, sparked off by the mining companies’ intensified exploitation of the miners. Following a drop in the world price of gold, the companies tried to maintain their old profit margins by pressing down wages and massive sackings. It started as a strike by White mineworkers on 28 December 1921 and became an open rebellion against the state. Subsequently, the workers took over the cities of Benoni and Brakpan, and the Johannesburg suburbs of Fordsburg and Jeppe. The young Communist Party of South Africa took an active part in the uprising. Several Communists, including the strike leaders Fischer and Spendiff, were killed as the rebellion was quelled by state forces. [ [http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1922/apr/18b.htm Lenin: 703. TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV ] ] The rebellion was eventually crushed by "considerable military firepower and at the cost of over 200 lives." [Butler, A. 2004. Contemporary South Africa. Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan]

ee also

* Benjamin Jennings Caddy
* Jacob van Deventer
* Ernest Glanville
* Cape Mounted Riflemen
* Light Horse Regiment
* South African Air Force

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