Cry The Beloved Country and the Mines Of South Africa In The 1940 s
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Mines in South Africa contributed to the development and growth of South Africa. As well, they were a significant series of conflict in Alan Paton's novel, Cry The Beloved Country, and in the history of South Africa. The three points of comparison will be made below discussing the mines in South Africa in 1940's and mines depicted in the novel. First, the ownership will be examined. Second, the workers of the mines and their suffering. Third, the effect of the mines on South Africa.
The owners of the mines were Europeans. The Europeans owned almost all the shares in the mines and whenever a new mine was discovered the white man always had total control of it.
"And when the new gold is found, it is not we who will get
more for our labour. It is the white man's shares that will rise,
you will read it in all the papers...