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From Segregation to Apartheid
… of urban African populations, as well as growing trade union activity and rising African working class militancy. …
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… youth, worker, civic, women's, religious, sport and trade union organisations. The gathering was the biggest crowd of …
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… ties with countries of the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), which includes Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, …
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… is introduced to the politics of the regenerating trade union movement, Black Consciousness (including the writing of …
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… African National Congress is formed. 1946 African Miners Union (AMU) organises a strike by miners that has far …
ArticleCapitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940
… who did not abide by the rules of the NLRA. In 1935 trade union membership stood at 3.6 million. By 1941 it was 8.6 …
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… against racial discrimination and segregation in the Union of South Africa”. Following their bannings, in 1961 the …
Pretoria the Segregated city
… resulted in emerging active stayaways, which came from the union leaders and other regional political organisers. Young … Governor of the Transvaal and…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… the stevedoring workers in building united action and a union; then the Transport and General Workers Union. The time It was conceived in the worst of times…
Document 120 - Draft Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa (c. 1940)41
… the right to trade, and to move about freely in the Union. The Coloured, who until recent years, had more rights … therefore repudiates the policy of these…
Address to the Botswana National Assembly, Gaborone, 11 March 2003
… at the continental level, we have, through the African Union, agreed on the need for a peer-review mechanism so that … of countries that constitute the…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… causes continual under funding. 1924 The National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) forms to represent … The University of Stellenbosch withdraws from…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the 12th International meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties, 3 December 2010, Centurion, Pretoria
… Dlamini and others in the South African Congress of Trade Union (SACTU), who laid the foundations for a progressive trade union movement in our country. They…
Address to the SANC Local Government Conference, 30 July 1999 Johannesburg
… of Local Government President of the International Union of Local Authorities, Mr. Patrick Wanyeraw President of the African Union of Local Authorities,…
Document 141 “Apartheid Spells Disaster”, Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Party’s National Conference, Johannesburg,6 to 8 January 1950,2y Freedom, New Series 15 December, 1949
… and for its overthrow. If the leaders of the trade union movement and the leaders of the various Non-European … and of [-I achievements of the workers in the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Hertzogian Segregation VERSUS The Cape Native Policy
… of general adaptation to the northern provinces of the Union of South Africa. Those of us who were born under it … produced the happiest section of the Bantu…
Address at the Africa Regional Disability Consultative Conference Johannesburg, 6th May 2003
… efforts to the programmes and initiatives that the African Union (AU), is doing through the New Partnership for Africa's … we work closely with our…
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… he involved himself in the activities of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), but he and others … many more whites at university, the non…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… much of political society through alliances with the trade union movement and other important civil society formations. … – indeed the launch of the NDP…
Message sent to Canon Collins by ALbert Luthuli, 1 March 1956
… must be a landmark in their struggle for freedom in the Union of South Africa. There were many features which marked …
Work In Progress
… In Progress appeared was one in which the embryonic trade union movement had not yet emerged as a major actor on the …
PlaceRissik Street Post Office, Johannesburg
… Chimes" amid loud cheers of those present while the Union Jack was simultaneously hoisted and flown from the …
Document 92 “Communist Party of South Africa Plenum Held from 5th to 8th April 1936”, Umsebenzi, and 16 May 1936
… and pamphlets for wide distribution throughout the Union. 6. That no opportunity should bemissed to enlist the …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Statistical analysis of Resisters
… Ushers 2 Welders 8 Clerks 37 Hospital Orderlies 12 Trade Union Secretaries 4 Secretaries\Bookkeepers 12 Municipal …
EventApartheid becomes official policy
… more. South Africa is our own for the first time since Union, and may God grant that it will always remain our own.' …
South African and World leaders
… is a policy that keeps Blacks and Whites apart. Between 1910 and 1948, South Africa also had a policy of segregation. …
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… 1939-45 led to a remarkable change in the economy of the Union of South Africa, and in the process there was an … new generation of workers was being drawn…
PlaceUniversity of the Witwatersrand, (Wits)
… Prince Arthur of Connaugh t, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, became the University's first …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… J. Ref: RP 104/1990 South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) is formed. The government puts forward the … memorandum of understanding amending the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… in South Africa on the mines, and there was a customs union between the countries. Postal, telegraphic and monetary … Apartheid "This Committee condemns the…