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Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Although I had been active in the labour movement since the days of my youth, my election to the position of general secretary the union…
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The basis of South African national policy for the last sixty years has been the maintenance of a vast reservoir of cheap African labour…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Hester Cornelius (Translated from the Afrikaans) I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg District, Transvaal. Both my father and my…
Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The year 1944 was one of the busiest for the union. In the midst of the trouble, which started in February, we became involved in a series…
Introduction - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The story of the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa epitomizes the history of South Africa itself during the last thirty years, the…
Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Few people, including most English-speaking South Africans, know anything at all about the Afrikaner people, their history and their…
Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
In the Cape and Natal, the overwhelming majority of garment workers have always been Coloured, Indian and Malay, while in the Transvaal,…
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Nationalist Government attacks on the union continued. Schoeman refused to gazette the agreement for the clothing industry, which contained…
Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
All South African labour laws have objectionable features which cause bitter resentment among the workers, and nearly all of them are…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
GUNS AND GALLOWS In outward appearance South Africa is a calm, peaceful land, spacious and sunny; its peoples-Black, White and Coloured…
Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The worldwide depression, which started in 1929, had a serious effect on South African economic life. By 1930, industrial production, which…
Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Bad as conditions were in factories, the evil of homework was even worse. The worker who is compelled to turn his home into a workshop…
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The Nationalist Party, though always claiming to have no association with Nazism, had staked everything on a Nazi victory. Hitler's defeat,…
Chapter 3. The Poor White Problem - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
From the moment I assumed office, I came face-to-face with the "Poor White" problem, one of the major tragedies of South Africa. People…
Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Katie Viljoen "Work Like Hell and be Merry" I was born in 1912 on a farm near Bloemfontein, in the Orange Free State. My parents were at…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Although the union had previously denounced the treachery of Neville Chamberlain, once war was declared it supported the war effort, and…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 8 - The Impracticality of Realism
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner The Christian human model is one of freedom and openness. To love means to be free…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 6 - Education for Freedom
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner At this point I want to make a small excursion into the field of education, for…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Three days before the…
Manual Labour and Countrylife
The Public and the Private
Recreation
Interfaith Solidarity
Media for Education and Service
List of Other Early Settlers and Associates of Phoenix Settlement (1904-1914)
Its significance
Women
Producing Resistors to Fight Injustice
Awards of Recognition to Honourable Early Associates of Gandhiji and Phoenix Settlement 1904-1914
The Gandhi Development Trust recognises on this important occasion of the centenary of Phoenix Settlement, the outstanding contribution,…
RULING CLASS RESPONSE
SACTU AND THE CONGRESS ALLIANCE
STATEMENT BY THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF SACTU, JOHN GAETSEWE
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT OF SACTU, STEPHEN DLAMINI
STATE REPRESSION
SACTU APPEARS UPON THE SCENE
Women Play A Leading Role
The New Generation
A significant challenge to state policy as regards the visual arts was undertaken at The State of Art in South Africa Conference held in…
The Pioneers
The artworks presented in this section of the exhibition had their historical beginnings in the decades of the 1920s and 1930s. These…
The Neglected Tradition
In 1987 when I was first approached by Christopher Till of the Johannesburg Art Gallery to curate an exhibition of art by 'black South…
New Generation Sculpture
During the 1980s the work of a number of sculptors working in the northern part of the country, Gazankulu and Venda, came to the attention…
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
As the Polly Street Art Center drew to a close so Rorke's Drift was established. Polly Street was urban, Rorke's Drift rural. If Polly…
Profiles of Artists
The Polly Street Era
It is evident, through the examples of the art of John Koenakeefe Mohl, Ernest Mancoba and Gerard Sekoto, that the foundations of a fine…
National Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR)
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