This square in Johannesburg is the location of a battle between striking miners and the South African police, army and air force.

[1] The uprising came out of a strike of black gold miners that started on `1 January 1922 in response to five shilling wage cut per shift.

The strike had become an open rebellion and on the 15 March the army was called to bombard the Fordsburg square which was deemed the stronghold of the rebels.

Even the South African Air Force was called to bomb this square but they hit the nearby Mint Road Presbyterian Church.

In 2013 a Blue Plaque was added to the side of that building to commemorate the role that the square took in the History of South Africa.