What Were The Responses Of The Black Societies To The White Demand For Labour

Question 1

How did black workers resist low wages and dangerous and unhealthy working conditions

Answer 1

Refused to return to mines after their contracts were completed
Sometimes ran away
Deliberately worked badly or broke tools as a form of resistance
At the end of the South African war (1899-1902) many African workers boycotted the mines and tried to find better jobs