Rand Revolt

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The Rand Revolt (or Rand Rebellion, or Second Rand Revolt) was a 1922 armed uprising by Afrikaans- and English-speaking white mineworkers in South Africa. It started as a strike by White mineworkers on 28 December 1921 and became an open rebellion against the state. The rebellion was eventually crushed by "considerable military firepower and at the cost of over 200 lives."[1]

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  1. ^ Butler, A. 2004. Contemporary South Africa. Hampshire and New York: Palgrave Macmillan
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