Talk:Gumboot dance

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I saw the reference to the "African welly boot dance" in a newspaper, and thought that it was probably a joke.

However after watching it then soon after finding out its meaning and history i saw i as the 'work of a genius' !The history to this amazing dance and rhytm of sounds is what the african mine workers made up and then used this to communicate by slapping their gum boots and wrattling their heavy metal chains and making up their own secret lanuage!

Whoever told you that the black gold miners could not talk to one another underground or that they worked in water up to their knees??? Of course they could talk and very often shout if they were near the drills. They had to in order to work together in that environment. No work would be done otherwise. As for working up to their knees in water, it rarely came up over one's boots. On the mines I worked on only the latrine gangs were issued with gumboots for that extremely unpleasant task, and they worked a short evening shift as compensation. There is an awful lot of rubbish written about conditions in the gold mines. It was hard work in the heat and sometimes inadequate ventilation but everyone looked out for everyone else, black and white. You had to.Egoli (talk) 19:28, 9 March 2014 (UTC)

May I emphasise my earlier comments above. I have never read such nonsense about working conditions on the mines in my life. PLEASE rewrite it. I would do so if I had the time or energy.

Egoli (talk) 23:00, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

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