The authors investigate the impact of the migrant labor system on heteroual relationships on South African mines and assess the impliions for the future transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.
The purchasing power of Basotho has dropped as the South African Rand has ... oldest nature reserve, as the latter is threatened by coal mines and rhino ...
Minister of Labour and Manpower Development Francis Kasaila has said only 12 Malawian exminers who worked in South African mines nearly 30 years ago ... Basotho ...
Lesotho provides some 90 percent of the water to South Africa's commercial hub, Johannesburg, and most of its major businesses are South Africanowned.
When his dad worked in the South African mines during the 1970s, Morebane Ramonotsi, like many other young Basotho 1 boys, gained early .
By the 1960s, South Africa's mines had workforces that were more than 80 percent foreignbecause the foreign men could be sent back across the borders when the mines were done with them, and because the mine bosses believed that some ethnic groups, such as the Basotho people of Lesotho, were easier to control than others.
Once South Africa achieved democracy and apartheid came to an end, Basotho workers were perceived as "foreign," and as competitors for jobs which might be held by South Africans. Jobs for Basotho in South Africa began to disappear.
Image: SABC News Basotho This is a celebration which commemorates the beginning of the year with different rituals Basotho and cultural enthusiasts descended on the Basotho Cultural Village near QwaQwa on Saturday.
The book In the Time of Cannibals: The Word Music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants, David B. Coplan is published by University of Chicago Press.
Basotho culture is centred around village life, ... The powerful South African economy, ... Many spend years as migrant workers in the gold mines around Johannesburg.
Basotho miners and zamazama in ... many South African neighbouring countries, have been popularly known as the labour reserve economies for South African mines ...
Many Basotho look to South Africa's government for compassion. The African National Congress was founded in Lesotho in 1912 by King Letsie II. During the struggle against apartheid, the ANC's armed wing organised its guerilla units from the enclave. But the government in Pretoria has a short memory. Last Tuesday, South Africa stopped .
South African miners are falling victim to tuberculosis (TB) at an alarming rate, with deaths from the disease outstripping those from fatal accidents in mines. Some studies suggest that as many as 13 times more miners die of TB than mine accidents each year. To counter this, the health department ...
South Africa: Letšeng Diamonds Full Scholarship for Basotho Diploma ... tomorrow's captains of Lesotho mining ... institutions in South Africa
South African and Global Apartheid: The Experience of Basotho Labor in the South African Gold Mines and Taiwaneseowned Textile Factories
Whether South Africa's Illegal Gold Mining Problem Is Measured in Revenue, Security Risks, or Human Lives—in the End, Everyone Loses. South Africa is the world's fifth largest producer of gold, with the gold mining sector representing approximately two percent of South Africa's GDP.
He moved to the Orange Free State and joined the Free State Commandos in 1858 during the first Basotho War. ... to employ new and original exploration techniques and geological theories contributed to the discovery of at least ten mines or mineral deposits on two continents. ... Rupert played an important role in the South African Small ...
Lesotho's economy is fragile, even with the benefits it derives from South Africa which include a partially shared customs union, a single currency (the South African rand is used interchangeably with the Lesotho loti ), and an integrated communiions system. A major sustaining factor in the country's economy is employment found in South .
... The Basotho are a ... Basotho in South Africa live in African townships, are laborers on farms owned by Afrikaners or work in the mines. Culture. The Basotho ...