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Jan 16, 2012

Document 19 - The D. F. Malan Accord

Introduction The new and competitive presence of Indians in the country created panic among white South Africans. Afrika...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on the question of South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe (The Harare Declaration) Sections 14-24

Published and launched in January 2009 in partnership with Vivalia Press. Editors:  Cornelius Thomas Stat...

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Jan 16, 2012

Document 3 - Peace Treaty of Vereeniging

Today's opening address of President Nelson Mandela to parliament will go down in the history of our country as one of t...

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Jan 16, 2012

The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation

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Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike

Nineteen-eighteen was a significant year for Cape Town (and South Africa generally). The influenza epidemic with many th...

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Jan 16, 2012

’Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920

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The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921

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Jan 16, 2012

Socialist League

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Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study

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The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907

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Chapter XI - Witness for freedom

From the book:&nbsp;Side by Side by Helen Joseph When I began to give evidence, my knees were actually trembling for th...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter V - Acts of conscience

From the book:&nbsp;Side by Side by Helen Joseph One of the special joys of being unbanned was that although banned peo...

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Jan 16, 2012

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 greeti...

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Jan 16, 2012

Chapter XV - House arrest

From the book:&nbsp;Side by Side by Helen Joseph On 13 October 1962,1 became the first person in South Africa to be put...

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