Rand Rebellion
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The Rand Rebellion was an armed uprising of White Syndicalists, Communists, and Nationalists in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa, in March 1922.
Rebels being taken prisoner in Fordsburg
The first meeting of the Fordsburg strike commando in January.
The Fordsburg Women's Commando carrying a banner with a White supremacist slogan.
A photograph showing the Council of Action announcing a continued general strike after removing the Augmented Executive from power on March 6, 1922.
Union of South Africa
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The Union of South Africa was a British Dominion and, later, a Commonwealth realm in southern Africa from 1910 to 1961. It was the historical predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa. I
Rand Rebellion
…the 1922 Miners' strike and the Rand Revolt) was an armed uprising of White Syndicalists, Communists, and Nationalists in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa, in March 1922. Following a drop in the global price of gold from 130 shillings (£6 10s) per fine troy ounce in 1919 to 95s/oz (£4 15s) in December…
Holiday Time in Cape Town (1891–1899) depicted an imagined future united South Africa at a time when the idea was being widely debated in the Cape Colony.
The first Union cabinet, 1910
South West Africa stamp: Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret on the 1947 Royal Tour of South Africa
A No. 5 Squadron SAAF Kittyhawk fighter aircraft in Italy