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Topical Budget 556-2: How General Smuts Quelled the Red Revolution on the Rand (1922)
 

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Portrait of General Smuts who quelled a coal mining strike in South Africa. Events from March 1922. Smuts declared martial law in Johannesburg on March 10th.