Mines and Works Act

The Mines and Works Act, Act no. 12/1911 ( German as: mining and labor law ) is a 1911 in the South African Republic ( Transvaal ) law passed by which the allocation was determined by activities among the miners so that white workers whenever possible exercised the higher skilled tasks.

Whites were assigned functions as an overseer for black workers as well as engineering or administrative functions. It was also determined that only white miners work as a demolition expert and could get the so-called " blasting certificate" ( German blasting permit). The license for explosives was in the following 80 years, the symbol of the oppression of blacks in the mines of South Africa. In the section 4 (n ) of the legal text dealing with the relevant professional certificates was regulated in detail, without causing a literal distinction between " blacks" and " whites" was made.

This law was followed by further in this field. Those were the Mines and Works Regulations Act of 1912 and the Mines and Works Amendment Act of 1926 and 1956.

Weblink

• Brief Description of the Mines & Works Act. on www.nelsonmandela.org ( Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Dialogue ) (English)

• Historic legal source ( South Africa)
• Apartheid
• 1911