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Accident books

Accident books for every employee, containing the remaining copies, of which originals would have been removed for processing elsewhere. The accident reports for African labourers were addressed to "The Native Commissioner Krugersdorp".

Daily White Labour Report

  • ZA HPRA A3297-1-1.2-1.2.5
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  • 1953 - 1954

    • Part of Mining Papers

List of the number of men in service for Surface (Engineers department, Compound, Secretariat, Reduction works) and Underground (Underground Manager and Engineering departments).

Discharge Native Registers

Discharge registers for African labourers listed amongst other information like Tribe, Source of supply (labour broker), and Reason for discharge. A column of Remarks includes reasons like: Time expired (T Ex), Undesirable, Repatriated due to accidents and illness ("amputated foot"), Rejected by Medical Officer (M.M.O) due to poor physique or X-Ray examination, Sent to Gaol, Diseases like Dysentery, Silicosis, Pneumonia, Meningitis, Bronchitis, TB and others. there would be causes of deaths of miners by accidents due to rock fall, fractured spine, fractured base of skull and others. Often miners would be transferred between mines like Geldenhuis Deep, Durban Deep, Nourse Mines, consolidated Langlaagte, Crown Mines, Randfontein South, Robinson Deep and many others, which is also indicated in the Discharge book. Later columns included are Medical Examination, Deserted, Crimes/Convictions.

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