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The History of May Day in South Africa
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- NUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973 1971 11 March, A resolution is passed at a student body meeting for the establishment…
- South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)In the 1930s various trade unions from different backgrounds ranging from conservative…
- South African Labour historyThere are different ways to tell every story, and the same is true of history. For…
- South African Communist Party (SACP)On 30 July 2011, the South African Communist Party (SACP) celebrated its 90th anniversary…
- National Union of South African Students (NUSAS)In 1924 the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was founded aimed at…
- Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)During the 1920s, the South African Native National Congress (SANNC) - which changed its…
- Council of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)During the 1930s there were attempts by African workers to organise and reconstruct all…
- Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)The Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) was the first South African trade…
- Biographies of Trade Union Activists
- Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940sThe discovery of a diamond on a farm in the British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of…
- Land, Labour and Apartheid Land and labour are two very important elements of the economic development of a society,…
- The Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973When Black workers in Durban embarked on a wave of strikes in January 1973, the…