The Mining Industry: Evidence and Report of the Industrial Commission of Enquiry

The Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines

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Evidence and Report of the Industrial Commission of Enquiry

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Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2015
Print publication year:: 2013
Online ISBN:: 9781139854726
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139854726

Subjects:: Area Studies, African Studies, History, Engineering: General Interest, Economic History
Series:: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology

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The mining industry was a fundamental part of the economy of South Africa in the late nineteenth century, and control of the region's gold mines was a significant factor in the tension between Dutch and English settlers that led to the Second Boer War in 1899. In 1889 the Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines had been formed to promote the industry's development. Economic problems in the region led the Volksraad of the South African Republic to set up a Commission of Enquiry in 1897 to investigate high tariffs, labour and transport costs which were adversely affecting the mining industry. The 1897 report reissued here was not that of the commission itself, but contains much of the evidence and statistical material presented to it, in the hope that the mining industry would adopt its recommendations. As such, this detailed resource remains relevant to economic historians of South Africa and the British Empire.

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Evidence and Report of the Industrial Commission of Enquiry

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Evidence of Mr. K. Rood
pp 293-293

Evidence of Mr. F. W. Kock
pp 294-298

Evidence of Mr. A. B. Fyffe
pp 299-309

Evidence of Mr. G. A. A. Middelberg
pp 310-341

Evidence of Mr. W. C. Thomson
pp 342-347

Evidence of Mr. S. Foote
pp 348-361

Evidence of Mr. W. R. Brown
pp 362-364

Evidence of Mr. W. Shanks
pp 365-368

Evidence of Mr. G. A. Denny
pp 369-380

Evidence of Mr. A. Phillip
pp 381-411

Evidence of Mr. W. Hall
pp 412-430

Evidence of Mr. W. Hosken
pp 430-442

Closing remarks of the Chairman
pp 443-444

Report of the Commission
pp 445-458

Part II - Appendix
pp 459-459

I - Letter of the Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines to the Commission
pp 460-483

II - Memorials of the Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines to the Volksraad
pp 484-492

III - Report of the Witwatersrand Chamber of Mines Committee on Railways
pp 493-539

IV - Mr. Dougall's letter on the Netherlands Railway Company
pp 540-545

V - Netherlands Railway Concession
pp 546-555

VI - Report of the Volksraad Dynamite Commission
pp 556-562

VII - Balance Sheet of the South African Explosives Company
pp 563-564

VIII - The State Dynamite Monopoly. Contract between the Government and the Agent
pp 565-568

IX - Budget Statements of the South African Republic. Receipts and Expenditure from 1882 to 1896 inclusive
pp 569-572

X - List of Electors of the South African Republic
pp 573-573

XI - Statistics of the white population of the South African Republic
pp 574-574

XII - Statistics and Census of the native population of the South African Republic
pp 575-575

XIII - The Pass Law
pp 576-580

XIV - Schedule of native wages, Witwatersrand
pp 581-581

XV - The Liquor Law
pp 582-595

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