THE AFRICAN MINERS' STRIKE OF 1946 (1) by M. P. Naicker Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to the familiar 'fall of rock' and who, at deep levels, ranging from 1, 000 to 3, 000 feet in the bowels of the earth, sacrifice their lungs to the rock dust which develops miners' phthisis and pneumonia. - Sol Plaatjie, first ...