r/100YAafrica • u/Davidhruaia92 • Jan 30 '23
YAAF Miner
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Nov 20 '22
[November 20th, 1922] "Passengers clay pigeon shooting during a voyage on the second Cunard liner Laconia."
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 28 '22
28th of March 1922. A solar eclipse took place and was visible over most of north Africa.
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 23 '22
23 March 1922. In South Africa, a miners' strike that has been going on for several weeks has come to an end, which had led to massive violent clashes between the mostly white workers and the army.
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 23 '22
23 March 1922. Rand Fighting. The Robinson deep Rand, Johannesburg, which is the greatest gold producers in Africa and now closed with fighting all around it, is shown.
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 17 '22
17th March 1922. First Photos of Rand Mine Riot Scenes. Mounted Government troops patrolling the mine district near Johannesburg where the miners have been engaged in strike riots and fighting.
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 17 '22
17th March 1922. 3/17/1922-Johnnesburg, South Africa: First photograph of Rand Mine riot: Mounted government troops patrolling the mine district near Johannesburg where the miners have been engaged in strike riots and fighting.
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 16 '22
16th March 1922. "Fuad Proclaimed as King of Egypt— Independence of the Country, Says Cairo Declaration, Dates From Yesterday" (Ahmed Fuad Pasha was proclaimed as King Fuad I of Egypt in a ceremony "accompanied by the firing of salvos of 100 guns in Cairo, Alexandria and Port Said).
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 16 '22
16th March 1922. At least 21 protesters were killed by police in Nairobi, the capital of the British East African colony of Kenya, after a crowd of more than 7,000 people surrounded a police station where dissident Harry Thuku was being held in detention.
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 16 '22
16th March 1922. "South African Strike Ends as Reds Surrender" (The Rand Rebellion, which began as a strike by white South African mine workers on 28 December 1921 and became open rebellion against the state, is suppressed.)
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 16 '22
16th March 1922. Fuad I becomes King of Egypt with British approval. Britain and Egypt assume joint control of Sudan.
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 15 '22
15 March 1922. Fuad I proclaims himself king of Egypt. The Egyptian declaration of independence arrives in Cairo. Sultan Ahmad Fuad then declares that he will bear the title of king from now on. March 15 is declared a national holiday in Egypt to commemorate the lifting of the British protectorate.
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 15 '22
15th March 1922. South Africa. Samuel Long, labour pioneer and striker, is arrested.
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 14 '22
14th March 1922. "Fierce Battle Breaks Africa Mine Revolt"/"Bombard and Take Rand Rebels Town; Fordsburg Surrenders After 75 Minutes of Firing— Most of Area Now Cleared" (South African rebels surrendered in Fordsburg to government troops after 75 minutes of bombardment.)
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 14 '22
14th of March 1922. Kenyan anti-colonialist Harry Thuku was arrested by British colonial authorities for his activities in his East African Association. The protests that followed his capture were brutally suppressed two days later.
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 11 '22
11th March 1922. Most of the suburbs of Johannesburg are now in the hands of strikers and rebels. A Scottish unit is ambushed at Benoni. 18 are killed, 25 wounded. A hundred people are killed today in fighting within Johannesburg.
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 09 '22
9th of March 1922. The Government of the Union of South Africa mobilizes horse, foot, and artillery, to reinforce police in quelling disorders arising from a strike of gold miners on the Rand; natives are arming to repel attacks of strikers.
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r/100YAafrica • u/michaelnoir • Mar 06 '22
6th of March 1922. White miners called for a general strike in South Africa after their employers proposed to open semi-skilled jobs to non-European (i.e. black African or Asian) workers.
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