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A 6 page research paper that focuses on the role played by the gold industry in South African history. The writer discusses this in terms of the Boar War and apartheid. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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are typical of South Africa, and Johannesburg, in particular. The western view of the city encompasses shiny, sophisticated postmodern buildings that represent the affluence of Johannesburg, while the eastern view
of the city is characterized by "cardboard shanties of poor and working families."1 The root causes for this sharp contrast can be found in South African history and particularly
in the role that the discovery of gold and the role of the subsequent gold industry played in shaping the history of South Africa. This examination will focus the role
of the gold industry in the Boer War; the Union of South Africa; the formulation of the National Party; apartheid and post-apartheid; and on the way in which the
gold industry influenced urbanization. Johannesburg is situated on the Witwatersrand (White Waters Ridge), which is located in the Transvaal.2 The founding of this city and its rapid expansion are a
direct result of the discovery of gold, as thousands of immigrants streamed into the newly created city of Johannesburg.3 By the middle of the nineteenth century, the idea that African
could eventually be assimilated into mainstream, Europeanized South African society was untenable, which was a conclusion largely drawn from the unsavory urban situation created by segregationist laws.4 Due to the
"poor sanitation and hygiene," the homes of Africans, who had been confined to slums by segregationist law, were perceived as a "source of epidemics of plague, cholera and malaria."5
In the Boer War, the goal for the British was to subdue all of South Africa under their imperial rule and, thus, gain control of all of South Africas considerable
mineral wealth.6 The Afrikaner goal was to defend their liberty, and, initially, all South Africans, Black and White, supported this cause; however, eventually, it was a cause that "divided families"
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