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Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, the Wobblies) was the main influence on the … a powerful presence amongst the white workers, and led big strikes in…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… This article was written by Nehal Patel and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … to 1999. Today, she lectures over women’s…
EventProtests against Afrikaans language in Black schools
… deeply unpopular since Afrikaans was regarded by some as the language of the oppressor. It was against this background that on 30 … instruction being…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular … It cut the wings of the trade union movement. But we had strikes. Strictly speaking they…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… from India, arrive in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in the Western Transvaal (now Gauteng), where they open a small … Kathrada and his wife Hawa, in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… from attending formerly "open universities" except the University of South Africa and Natal Medical School. 24 … start at the end of March 1960. March -…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION On the second day of January 1920, seventy…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma delivers the traditional ANC January 8th Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… society in which there is a collective ownership of the means of production [1] . The goal of communism is to … the government [4] . The unrests took the…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 25 April, Proclamation issued creating…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… On 3 September the Tricameral Parliament opened in Cape Town while protest demonstrations began in the Transvaal, marking the start of the longest and most…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… 1910 Anti- Indian Legislation: The Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions … discrimination against Indians. Anti-Indian Legislation: The…
ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… Begins studying for a doctorate on Jean-Paul Sartre at the University of Paris under Professor Jean Wahl 1964-1966 … 1969 Teaches for six months as a…
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference South Africa has a long and rich scholarly tradition on the labour…
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… a snapshot of his life, achievement and involvement in the struggle for South Africa’s national liberation – this by … does justice to a life wholly and…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… essentially. It’s true. You only win once, and that’s at the end. - Joe Slovo 1 Introduction THE ANC’S PROSPECTS as a … action and trade unionism, which had…
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
… Contents Early Days Seasonal work in the canning factory THE 'SUBS' STEWARD - "a fine leader to … There was also an essential products law that said strikes…
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… and became a mounted policeman at Thaba Nchu, on the border of Basutoland. When I was three years old, the family went to live in Thaba 'Nchu. During the…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… conversations with Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of the Transvaal. In letter to J. C. Gibson, Gandhi refuted the charge that South African movement was…
EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
… The Hector Pieterson Museum, the first museum in Soweto, was opened on 16 June 2002. The … of the 1976 uprising against the use of the Afrikaans in schools…
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… In May, 1960, the Union of South Africa will be 50 years old. The Government is preparing to celebrate this jubilee with … to non-violence. But with trade…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
… Madikizela-Mandela and 21 others, who were detained under the Suppression of Communism Act, in May 1969, are acquitted. … and recharged. They are placed in…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
… Cape Town interviewed by Rupert Taylor Taylor: What is the nature of the conflict? Ramphele: I’ll take issue with … from the university base to include…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, … students also spent a number of days leafleting secondary schools, challenging…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… - Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 Victory is the sum total of the resolution of a whole succession of … disturbances and boycotts occurred in…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
… From Garvey to Lenin, via Kadalie: The ICU’s “Ginger” Faction and the Transformation of Interwar Black Radicalism Henry Dee … limited industrialisation,…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… ‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 Jon Soske … of local community institutions: temples and…
PlaceWynberg, Southern Suburbs
… Wynberg is certainly one of the most interesting Areas in Cape Town. It is home to one of the oldest Schools in the Country (Wynberg Boys), with its…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… 1919 Formation of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU). … of Industrial Conciliation Act. 1941 Formation of the Council of Non…
EventStudents at Lovedale strike against new Code of Conduct
… Students at Lovedale College embarked on a strike against the new Code of Conduct and the appointment of the new Headmaster who had just returned from…