Red Rand

by Lewis Sowden. A serious play about the white miner’s strike on the Witwatersrand in 1922 and the social consequences of mining capitalism. Performed by the Repertory Reading Group in the Library Theatre Johannesburg, in 1937, under the direction of Elsie Salomon. Unpublished manuscript in the Witwatersrand University Libraries, A406. [I think it has been – I think I’ve seen it. TH]

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