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This product contains all the work for Social Sciences (History) Grade 8, term 2 – based on the “Today” textbook in English. History Topic 6:  The Mineral Revolution in South Africa: Unit 1:  Britain, diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansionism. Unit 2:  Deep-level gold mining on the Witwatersrand from 1886 onwards.

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, Mining in South Africa
• The discovery of diamonds and gold spurred the
development of new industries and city growth,
U1: Britain, particularly in Kimberley and Johannesburg.
• The discovery of gold in Johannesburg in 1886
diamond mining sparked a gold rush - led to Johannesburg
and increasing becoming the largest city in South Africa.
labour control and
land expansionism


Sample Increasing control over


black workers
African men were housed in closed compounds in 1885
to prevent theft and illegal trading.
• These labour practices influenced the development of


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Further land dispossession and defeat
of African kingdoms – Xhosa 1878, and
Pedi and Zulu 1879
racially-based regulations and laws controlling black
South Africans' movement, employment conditions,
living conditions, and social status.


• The Xhosa people lost their land after 9 frontier wars
from 1779-1878.
• The Pedi had conflict with the Boers and the British
between 1876 and 1879.
• The Pedi leader, Chief Sekhukhune, was captured in 1879
during the Anglo-Pedi war, leading to their defeat.




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