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The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation
’Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
Chapter V - Acts of conscience
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph One of the special joys of being unbanned was that although banned people could still not…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph When I began to give evidence, my knees were actually trembling for the first time in my life…
Chapter XV - House arrest
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph On 13 October 1962,1 became the first person in South Africa to be put under house arrest. The…
Chapter X - Trial by detention
In Pretoria things had changed at court. Our van drove through the gates of the old synagogue. We heard shouts of greeting as we were…
Chapter IX - Return to my faith
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Forty years is a very long time to be away from the faith into which you were born and…
Chapter VII - Democracy?
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph In January 1957 we were back again in the Drill Hall. The cage had been removed and our seats…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The State of Emergency was over. Lilian and I came out of gaol together on the morning of 31…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Six months later, in August 1958, we came to trial. The government wanted us out of…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress Alliance, functioning with a closely co-ordinated leadership, was working on the…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph June 1971 had brought me freedom from all the frustrations of house arrest and the other…