A major strike broke out among African mineworkers in the Copperbelt Province of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) on 29 May 1935 in protest against taxes...
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The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace...
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organizing the 1935 Copperbelt strike over poor safety standards and increased taxes. In 1940, miners in Northern Rhodesia went on strike again, using the...
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and segregation being applied in the north. Shortly after the Copperbelt strike of 1935 there was an election to the legislative council, in which all...
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the region now known as the Copperbelt. 1935 - Capital transferred to Lusaka. Strike of African mineworkers in the Copperbelt. 1938-64 - Anglo American...
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changed hands twice. The Roan Antelope Copper Mine is in Luanshya District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia. The Köppen climate classification is Cwa : Monsoon-influenced...
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training. In 1935, the Northern Rhodesia Regiment were called up to support the Northern Rhodesia Police during the Copperbelt strike of 1935 along with...
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between police and some of the 9,000 native workers on strike. Six natives were killed in the Copperbelt Province near Luanshya. The German Messerschmitt Bf...
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United National Independence Party. "Black miners strike in the Northern Rhodesian (Zambia) Copperbelt, 1935". Global Nonviolent Action Database. Swarthmore...
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Club. Keith was the District Commissioner at Ndola during the Copperbelt strike of 1935. He told the following Commission of Enquiry that although the...
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