taxation for government, and a catalyst for the region's. economy: He
tightened the pass laws to restrict the mobility of African laborers, while
the mining companies cut Africans' wages and stopped competing for their
labor by combining to form a Witwatersrand Native Labor Association
(WNLA). When Africans walked off their jobs, the government responded
with force; when Africans failed to come to the mines on the prescribed
terms in the required numbers, the government arranged for laborers to be
imported from China. By 1907, 63,000 Chinese had arrived, contracted
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