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… Congress (SAIC), APO and the Coloured People's National Union requesting them to convene a National Convention in … Durban City Council dismisses 334 Indian municipal council workers as against 80 African workers.  This is a deliberate attempt to divide workers. In …

… people's concerns: he joined the Natal Native Teachers Union and in 1928 was elected its secretary. He accrued … Dressed in western-style clothing, these secretarial workers occupied a key position between management and … aspiration - to be set apart from the mass of ordinary workers. Clearly then, Luthuli, and Africans in general, were …

… made it difficult to access natural resources. [2] The Union of South Africa implemented the Irrigation and … South Africans from owning land. [7] This enabled the Union of South Africa to take away both land and water from … housing to standstill. [15] By 1944 many urban African workers became squatters, who were forced to live in …

… Upon his return, on 24 August, Farewell hoisted the Union Jack and formally took possession of the land in the … contract of indenture. At the end of the five years, workers had the option of signing new contracts for a further … 341 indentured labourers from India to find employment as workers on Natal’s cane fields, entered the bay aboard the SS …

… University of the Witwatersrand. Secretary of the Textile Workers Industrial Union, Durban; he was one of those banned in Nov. '76 along … or organisations offering advice and training to black workers. The organisations affected: Urban Trainig Project …

… Lord Selbourne leaves Pretoria. 31 May, Birth of the Union of South Africa with Pretoria as administrative capital … Louis Botha becomes the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. November, First tram runs in Pretoria. … which leads to the creation of locations to house Black workers in White urban areas. 1928 ISCOR is established. 1929 …

… that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the agenda of second … Union Conference against Apartheid - organised by the Workers' Group of the ILO Governing Body, in cooperation with … Apartheid, Palais des Nations, Geneva, organised by the Workers' Group of the ILO Governing Body in cooperation with …

… Movement (RENAMO) in Mozambique and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in Angola. … In addition to being active in these organisations as workers, students and community activists, women also … Sharpeville, Evaton, Boipatong and Bophelong). Lekoa workers were among some of the lowest paid in the country. …

… Movement (RENAMO) in Mozambique and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) in Angola. … In addition to being active in these organisations as workers, students and community activists, women also … Sharpeville, Evaton, Boipatong and Bophelong). Lekoa workers were among some of the lowest paid in the country. …

… The history of working people, and particularly Black workers, to organise is inextricably tied to the struggle … can be traced back to the vast influx of majority White workers who came to Southern Africa from across the globe in …

… On 14 July 1789 hundreds of French city workers stormed the Bastille fortress in Paris. This marked … that determined every single person's position and rights. Workers who had long been denied rights and privileges grew …

… service. 1879 Founding of the first two Whites-only rugby union clubs in South Africa, Hamilton and the Villagers. 1883 … of the Whites-only Western Province Rugby Football Union. 1886 Formation of the Blacks-only Western Province Coloured Rugby Football Union. 1889 Formation of the Whites-only South African Rugby …

… to take part in political activities. The Metal and Allied Workers Union  (MAWU) was especially active, recruiting members with … to the ANC. The Sekhukhuneland Progressive Teachers Union was founded in 1990, but was absorbed into the SA …

… and those of mixed race. 1949 October 6 , Group comprising workers, trade unions and certain individuals speaks out on … W. Lace Visiting Professor of World Christianity at the Union Theological Seminary, thus missing the entire Defiance … is announced for 20 March 1951. The Food and Canning Workers Union and the Cape Town branch of the African …

… heroines - fearless warriors, brave students, determined workers, powerful men and women, who believed that it was … 16th anniversary of Freedom Day celebrations held at the Union Buildings in Pretoria prior to  the FIFA 2010 World Cup …

… 1960s  1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London. 1965 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University of Leeds, Britain. 1973 A nuclear particle … Awarded International Peace and Freedom Award by the Workers International Centre, Stockholm Sweden 5 May, …

… of bread, but soon developed into a full-scale revolt of workers, soldiers and peasants against conditions of hardship … Party that was anti-war.It agitated for mass strikes among workers to end the war. In January 1919 the Spartacist League … of manufacturing industries increased by 72%. Many White workers left to fight in France along the Western front, …

… and they were remunerated at a higher rate than plantation workers. The second largest agricultural activity was tea … in the Colony, as unskilled, semi-skilled and skilled workers.  In every phase of railway expansion, Indians played …

… West was nervous about the new developments in the Soviet Union, the largest country in the world. This is because the … sides either for or against communism and the Soviet Union. Internally, the Soviet Union was an oppressive state that had not fulfilled its …

… a defiant rejection of apartheid, especially among Black workers and the youth. The South African Students … another student led organization. At the same time, Black workers began to organise trade unions in defiance of … killed many protesters, including schoolchildren. Workers then mobilised to protest police killings of innocent …

… Black settlement proceeded apace, especially after Union in 1910. A Native Recruiting Organisation, established … to the mines and sugar plantations in the country. Trade union activity was suppressed, and territorial segregation … from the region were removed to the homelands, and workers in the town had to commute from the townships, most …

… challenging environment, due in part to the entry of Black workers into Cape Town that suppressed Coloured wages, the … the moderate, compromise-orientated Coloured People Nation Union (CPNU) and the more confrontational Non-European Unity … The law also contemplated an advisory body called the Union Council of Coloured Affairs (UCCA), which was …

… with the South Africa Act of 1910 that established the Union of South Africa, their treatment after the South … War (1899-1902) paved the way for the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910. The eight years between the end of the war in 1902 and the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was marked by intense …

… Church of the Nazarene (USA) CUSA : Congregational Union Church Aid and Missionary Society of South Africa … Church in Scotland FBS : Scandinavian Independent Baptist Union (Sweden) FCS : Free Church of Scotland Foreign Mission … (USA) FMS : Finnish Missionary Society HS : Holiness Union (Sweden) HFMA : Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association …

… Vasu Chetty, and others organised a historic leather-workers strike. For the first time in the 34-year history of the leather industry, workers of all races went on strike together. Chota Motala, … Naicker Naicker told a meeting of the Textile Workers Union in Clairwood that 'repressing people by instilling fear …

… Out’ campaign 5-6 November, between 300 000- 800 000 workers stage a stayaway, centrally organised by COSAS , The … had been detained. 16 June, an estimated 1.5 million workers participate in a national stay away. UDF launches … members are in detention 'Friends of UDF' launched Cosatu union National Union of Mineworkers hold strike to demand …

… secretariat and the Black Allied Mining and Construction Workers’ Union launch an anti-asbestos campaign, aiming to raise … agitate for better wages and compensation for asbestos workers and eventually close all asbestos mines in South …

… of the women angered the Indian community. Indian workers all over Natal decided to go on strike and to join … merchants. The campaigners gained the support of railway workers and miners, and on 16 October 1913, a strike began. … this time by the chief immi­gration officer. The workers continued the march. They arrived in Balfour, to find …

… India. Then, in June 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The entry of the Soviet Union into the war had grave … support for the Soviet Union. Indian women factory workers made the costumes, and trade unions with a large … ignore their substantial support, including that of the workers. It is difficult to analyse the election campaign and …

… two of the world’s major superpowers, the USA and Soviet Union, threatened each other with the use of nuclear weapons, … War II in Europe Although relations between the Soviet Union and the United States had been strained in the years … highly improbable that the United States and the Soviet Union would forge an alliance. U.S.-Soviet relations had …