Moodie and Ndatshe interviews with Mpondo miners, clerks and Xhosa-speaking women

Literature › Primary sources

Kind	interviews oral history
Producer	T. Dunbar Moodie; Vivienne Ndatshe
Coverage	1984-1990
Works using it	4

Debates

Debate	Works
The mine migrant labour system: origins, recruitment, foreign labour and stabilisation	3
Worker consciousness, strikes and conflict on the mines and shop floor	2
Cheap labour thesis and the function of the reserves	1

Works using this source

Work	As cited	Period	How used
Crush and James (1995a)	Vivienne Ndatshe interviews with Xhosa-speaking women, Vaal Reefs area, June-December 1990	1990	Testimony on women's housing preferences and urban/rural ties.
Crush and James (1995b)	Interviews by Vivienne Ndatshe with Xhosa-speaking women, Vaal Reefs area, 1990	June-December 1990	Supplies the life histories on town women, country wives and housing preferences.
Moodie (1986)	Author's 1984 interviews with Mpondo ex-miners, black officials (indunas, clerks), retired compound managers, and Sotho clerks (Tapes 3-30)	Interviews Spring 1984 on 1940s	Establishes the moral economy, role of isibondas, home-boy and room networks, and worker accounts of how the 1946 strike was organised.
Moodie (2005)	Interviews with Mpondo miners (with Vivienne Ndatshe, 1980s) and older Vaal Reefs clerks and Libanon worker Robert Mahlati (1984); interviews with black workers who were in the mines in the 1930s-40s	1980s	Oral testimony that violence was integral to underground work and promotion in the 1930s-50s and that machine-drillers were highly paid.