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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…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… the passes. The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) - a general union formed. A protest is held in the OFS … of the Industrial and Commercial…
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
GANGEN-GEORGE PONNEN - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN HIS COUNTRY, SOUTH AFRICA. I was…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… Kadalie of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), tribal chiefs (members of the Transkei Bunga), …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… 1925 New pier built in Cape Town Harbour. ICU headquarters shifted from Cape Town to Johannesburg. Alex …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… University Donald Gordon Medical Centre and Medi-Clinic ICU. Her doctor, Professor Jeff Wing, announced that she died …
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (the ICU) and the ANC. Besides the newly burgeoning African trade …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… Throughout the 1920s and 1930s Swazis were involved in ICU and ANC activities, particularly in the Transvaal. For … Kadalie, leader of the Industrial and…