RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Imperial Capital and Anti-Black Extraction in South Africa
JF African Economic History
JO Afr Eco His
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 63
OP 91
DO 10.3368/aeh.52.1.63
VO 52
IS 1
A1 Styve, Maria Dyveke
YR 2024
UL https://aeh.uwpress.org/aeh.uwpress.org/content/52/1/63.abstract
AB On the 16th of August 2012, thirty-four striking mineworkers were murdered by police in Marikana, South Africa during a strike against the mining company Lonmin. Could the fact that this at the time was a British-owned mining company in some ways represent a violent return of the ghosts of the late 19th century? This article details the historical connection between the financial sector in London and the mining industry in South Africa to examine the imbrications of international finance capital with imperial racism and racialized capital accumulation on the mines from the 1870s to the first World War.