The Effects of South Africa’s ‘mineral Revolution’ on the Working-class People of Johannesburg in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Minerals are inorganic substances that occur in nature and likely to be found in rocks underground. South Africa experienced industrialisation due to mineral revolution which was influenced by the major discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand, Transvaal around 1886. However, this industrialisation had an impact...