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… As Johannesburg expanded, so did its need for African labour. After the First World War, a large number of …

… and sentenced to nine month’s imprisonment with hard labour, but this was suspended for two years. In Port …

… Unity. Exactly 20 years ago, you retired from active politics. That was in 1997 at the age of 61. It’s interesting … – 61. By those terms, it’s very young to have retired from politics. Well, I didn’t actually retire. Let me first say … education and more focussed education trained on the labour requirements of the country will result in bringing …

… status quo and can find no common ground with the United & Labour Parties. The Africanists are aware, too, that when … this analysis glided over was that, in the meantime, the labour of the African working class had not only fructified … insecurity which capitalism means. Real class politics in South Africa consists in mobilising the African …

… was decided not to call a general strike, but to withdraw labour at first only from those factories where all, or the … press introduced the communist bogey into South African politics and exploited it on a big scale in the Hitler … of October, Colonel F. H. P. Creswell, leader of the Labour Party, who was then Minister of Labour in the …

… degree, in industry generally. Almost all the productive labour on the farms is performed by the agricultural Native … in South Africa. The productive part played by European labour in agriculture is comparatively insignificant. In the … the Native plays by far the greatest part in productive labour. In September, 1932, the ratio of Native labourers …

… in the field of popular music and culture. South African Labour History -  The South African Labour History Project aims to collect and document material relating to the history of the South African Labour Movement. This website is well designed, very visual …

… are bodies which bring together employers, government, labour and other role-players. We are not, as a country, … immune to the vicissitudes of occasionally turbulent labour relations. But the abiding common interest that we … arise. Above all, we are in the process of finalising labour legislation that will eliminate causes of the kinds of …

… higher wages and better jobs through the notorious white labour policy, and in general receive preferential treatment … any longer the luxury of inflated wages for the white labour aristocracy, and when this time DOES come, it will … trade union representatives. The South African Trades and Labour Council should be compelled to throw in its weight and …

… High Court of Justice in Batavia to banishment and hard labour for life. Their crime: preaching insurrection in … against the indigenous people, and also to provide labour in the same way that they had been employed at home, … had requested that the Mardyckers be sent to the Cape as a labour force. The Mardyckers were prohibited from openly …

… simplicity, environmental protection, conservation, manual labour, social and economic justice, nonviolent action, …

… (European and Coloured) from the South African Trades & Labour Council and the Furniture and Garment Worker's Unions …

… the white workers to adopt the principle of solidarity of labour irrespective of colour or race the spectre of racial …

… Cause'. Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of South Africa's greatest …

… the Cape Colony. Further reading list: A history of prison labour in South Africa Indenture: A new system of slavery? … Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa. …

… them with stones. In the  period of 1910 to 1914 organised labour began to find its feet in the Union. The first trade …

… passes still exist today, many of them built with prison labour . These prisoners workmanship, without mechanisation …

… Dia was arrested. In 1980, President Senghor retired from politics and handed power in 1981 to his successor Abdou …

… went on to prominent careers in fields as diverse as politics, medicine, literature and art. Some politically …

… early farming groups, had a strong liberal effect on Cape politics . Sir Antonie Viljoen and James Molteno , were MP's …

… their political aspirations. Steve Biko is introduced to politics as a teenager, when one of his older brothers, … Buthelezi seen by as an undeniable force in South Africa politics. Saso advocates a radical approach towards the … representatives of black religious, educational, civic, labour, sports and welfare organisations. Several factors …

… unionist who responded to the invitation from Tabata et al, was Dan Koza of the African Commercial and Distributive … Although it was severely critical of the SACP's local politics, particularly in its demand that people accept the … escaped the police dragnet. It was this collapse of legal politics, more than anything else, that led to the campaign …

… removed most black people's right to own land; the Native Labour Regulation Act, which made it a criminal offence for … Frances Baard first became involved in trade unions and politics in the late 1940s. As political action increased in …

… removed most black people's right to own land; the Native Labour Regulation Act, which made it a criminal offence for … Frances Baard first became involved in trade unions and politics in the late 1940s. As political action increased in …

… pertaining to our stand in contemporary international politics, our relation to the states of Afrika, both … occurs at a time when the whole continent of Afrika is in labour, suffering the pangs of a new birth and everybody is … of the Indian people in South Africa. And all that the politics of this class have meant up to now is preservation …

… pertaining to our stand in contemporary international politics, our relation to the states of Afrika, both … occurs at a time when the whole continent of Afrika is in labour, suffering the pangs of a new birth and everybody is … of the Indian people in South Africa. And all that the politics of this class have meant up to now is preservation …

… private owner of Non-European occupied land; through its labour bureaux the largest recruitment and controller of Non-European labour and one of its largest employers. Very soon through … at least a clear demarcation of differences. Those whose politics consist of stereotyped slogans and cliches will no …

… It was a decade that saw the mobilisation of black labour into a unified, potent force. A decade of empowering …

… were attributable to security force intervention in civic, labour, political and educational protest. Unlawful actions … illegal activities and related violence on the labour front.' The  Weekly Mail  also alleged that Inkatha … to urban areas and to perpetuate the existence of docile labour reservoirs from which to feed mines, industry and …