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Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… founder of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), addresses. …
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… A protest march, organised jointly by the CPSA, ANC and ICU, is held in Cape Town and across the Rand in protest …
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… 1919 The Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) is established in Cape Town. Amongst some of the issues … for tenant farming becomes a major rallying…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… mines led to a series of strikes. In the rural areas the ICU organised sharecroppers and tenant farmers all over the … the boycotts of Bantu education. After…
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
ICC Origins In the aftermath of the Second World War (1939-1945) the international community recognised the need to deal with mass atrocities – particularly…
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… etc; these are the simpler cries that tell. Even so, the ICU has been inclined to repudiate the Black Republic, and …
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… Provincial Secretary and Durban Branch Chairman of the ICU. December. The Workers’ opens its doors and operates from … mass meetings of 5000 plus each day…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… Africans. The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) joined … (CPSA) and the Industrial and Commercial…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… movement. [19] Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU): The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union African … in early 1920s . Industrial and…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… later 1970s and 1980s. The Industrial Commercial Union (ICU), formed by Cements Kadalie in 1919, was the first real … claim a membership of 100,000 at its…
ArticleSources task: The Berlin Wall
These tasks have been broken down into smaller pieces to help you practice dealing with complex sources. The questions do not reflect the structure of the…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… Kadalie of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), tribal chiefs (members of the Transkei Bunga), …
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… war in 1918 the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) was formed by dockworkers, spearheaded by a prominent …
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… of this background, the Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) representing Cape black dock-workers was formed. Its …
ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
In September 1915, the Union Government offered to raise an infantry battalion of Cape Coloured men for service in the First World War. A strict selection…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU). 1924 Introduction of Industrial Conciliation Act. 1941 …
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
South Africa: The Cordoned Heart is considered as one of the seminal photographic exhibitions and books of the 1980’s. The exhibition and book was a product of…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in Johannesburg prior to…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
The earliest human ancestors (Homo erectus and Homo habilis) have their origin in East Africa more than 2 million years ago. Several human remains have been…
ArticleIndian South Africans Timeline 1910-1919
1910 Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions Act. Discrimination against Indians – Indians were excluded from receiving pensions according…
Article50 Facts on Africa
In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 facts about this continent that people may not…
People associated with Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
Mahomed Dadoo Fatima Dadoo PS Joshi Sarojini Naidoo Molvi Cachalia V. Srinivasa Sastri Jimmy Maxwell Salif Walla Mohambry Gangathura 'Monty'…
Article2016 in Review
In 2016 South Africa History Online celebrates 15 years of being a public open source heritage site. What a journey it has been. At the end of the first week…
ArticleThe Basotho
In the early 1800’s there was a great deal of migration and upheaval in Southern Africa, mostly as a result of the Mfecane. There were a number of conflicts…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… links with the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU). The ICU was very influential in channeling African political … 73-74). The role of women in…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… black workers in South Africa. Following the demise of the ICU in the early 1940s, the mine workers were the first to …
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
1942 12 April, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is born in Nkandla in northern KwaZulu-Natal. 1958 Zuma joins the African National Congress (ANC) and through…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
In the 1930s various trade unions from different backgrounds ranging from conservative craft unions, white racist industrial unions, white dominated racially…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South African Trade Unions COSAW,…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
With special reference to the campaigns in Britain by the Anti-Apartheid Movement Paper prepared for the United Nations Unit on Apartheid in 1971 1 The…