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All men had to pay a ____ tax that was over 18 years
a) Legal Tax
b) Sin Tax
c) Poll Tax
d) No tax

Miners had to walk long distances from their homes to find work
a) The will be hungry, tired and
b) Often bleeding feet
c) Robbers and crooks made the journey dangerous
d) All

Chamber of Mines introduced a recruiting system
a) That sent agents to villages
b) encouraging people to work on the mines
c) Agents would walk with miners to the mines
d) All

After a miner was recruited he had to
a) sign a contract that state how long the job would be
b) Stay on the mines until the contract expired (6 - 18 months)
c) If contract was broken they were either arrested, sent to jail or fined
d) All

What was a pass
a) Another form of labour control
b) He required a document called the Pass
c) He had 3 days to find work or end up working for the mines
d) All

What is soil erosion
a) Wearing away by
b) Wind and water
c) and over farming of the earth's surface
d) All

Family erosion
a) Blowing away of families
b) Slow breaking down of families
c) Killing of families
d) -

Reserves became less why
a) Cows produced less milk
b) White settlers took over more and more land
c) Soil produced less food
d) all

The reserves became poorer
a) False
b) True
c) No
d) -

Hung - over
a) Feeling one has the day after
b) Having too much alcohol
c) the night before
d) All

When was an African Mine union formed
a) 1923
b) 1900
c) 1941
d) 1946

When did the African miners stage a strike
a) 1946
b) 1950
c) 1942
d) 1980

How did workers resist
a) Break their contracts
b) Left mines cause of low pay
c) Poor conditions
d) all

How did workers resist
a) Drink too much over weekends
b) by not coming to work
c) They slowed down production
d) all

How did workers resist
a) Deliberately did a poor jobe
b) Broke their tools
c) workers acting stupid as if they didn't understand
d) All

In 1910 the Transvaal became a province of tehe
a) White controlled Union of SA
b) Johannesburg became part of the new province
c) Gauteng
d) All

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