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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 …

… a self -professed Nazi supporter who concentrated on the labour movement, especially the Afrikaans-speaking miners on … it entered into an electoral pact with the all-white Labour Party, defeating Smuts’ in the election that followed … it introduced the so-called “civilized [white] labour policy”, privileging white employment over black. It …

… African goods are being implemented in many countries. Labour organisations refuse to service South African cargoes … general strike. It is reported that only 10-15 % of the labour force joins the strike. In Johannesburg, however, … African absenteeism. More than 40 % of the Rand's huge labour force stays at home. Fifty % of the Asians are out at …

… was held in Durban to propose the introduction of Indian labour. 1852 13 August, The first steamship to sail into … Natal Indian Congress. A critical shortage of agricultural labour in the Cape led to the appointment by its Colonial Government of a Labour Commission. One of its findings came out strongly …

… released on the same day gives obstruction by the Labour Party as the reason for the abolition of the previous … include the Soweto ‘Committee of, Inkatha, AZAPO, the Labour Party, the Natal Indian Congress and the South African … registration procedure. 1980 15 April, The (Coloured) Labour Party National Executive Committee resolves to expel …

… November 1860 and 1911 (when the system of indentured labour was stopped) nearly 152 184 indentured labourers from …

… forms a government without the aid of the South African Labour Party. 16 December, A protest march, organised jointly …

… as it focused on criticizing the exploitation of African labour, the imposition of pass laws on women and work …

… pressures and volatile commodity prices. Additionally, labour costs in the mining sector account for 45% to 50% of …

… ship. The station also began to experience a chronic labour shortage and because the Khoisan were seen as …

… of indigenous societies) the development of the migrant labour system, these prescriptions on the role of women, as … in laundry to provide extra income while some entered the labour market as domestic servants. In settler society too, … the wars they waged and fought; how they constituted the labour force on the mines in the developing cities and the …

… in the 1953 South African General Election. The Black Labour Relations Regulation Act (Black Labour and Settlement of Disputes Act) No 48 is passed. A … announces that women must carry passes. The Black Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Amendment Act No 59 is …

… moving denunciation of "blackbirding" and other iniquitous labour practices, and is one of the first South African … what life was really like for peasants forced into urban labour. 1911 Olive Schreiner's the polemical Women and Labour (1911) was published. 1912 Union in 1910 persuaded …

… for black farmers living on "white" land to exchange their labour for a small piece of ground where they could build … as some of the women, were forced to enter the migrant labour market. In most cases this took them away from home … the fact that many men, previously employed in the migrant labour market, lost their jobs and returned home to their …

… over Africans- which would ensure security and access to labour. These societies attempted to resist the extension of … tax, many more Zulu men were forced into the Witwatersrand labour market to make ends meet and pay taxes. The gradual …

… brother Charles, and Gilbert Matshoba to six years’ hard labour at DeBeer’s Convict Station in Kimberley. A few were … were sentenced to between 12 and 18 months of hard labour. Mgijima was released from prison in 1924 and died …

… They seized cattle andpeople and forced the captured into labour. Kora (or Korana) raiders were groups of Tswana, Khoi … engaged in negotiations and struggles for control over labour and land with the Boers who were settled in the …

… to African for a supply of cheap raw materials and (slave) labour. West Africa was particularly important for the … control of Africa and thus her natural resources and labour supply. They also claimed exclusive trading rights …

… prohibited all further slave imports and aimed to import labour from the Netherlands to develop agriculture in the …

… the European community above the level of certain forms of labour . 23 March, The executives of the ANC, SAIC, SACTU , …

… driven by the pass laws and the enforcement of migrant labour practices. The locations where civic organisations …

… of impoverished Bantustan inhabitants – now ignored by the labour recruiters – bypassed influx control mechanisms in …

… no African workers could be hired unless the Department of Labour determined that Coloured workers were not available. …

… blown up in New Brighton, the building of the New Brighton Labour Bureau and offices of the Bantu Administration Board …

… assets, trade liberalization, “regulated” flexibility in labour markets, strict deficit reduction targets, and …

… in trade union activity. Confronted with a growing labour crisis, in 1977 BJ Vorster legalised trade unions. … in the country. Worker strikes were suppressed through labour laws, pass laws (introduced in 1923 and repealed in … against the background of low wages and discriminatory labour practices reminiscent of the apartheid era. In an …

… in trade union activity. Confronted with a growing labour crisis, in 1977 BJ Vorster legalised trade unions. … in the country. Worker strikes were suppressed through labour laws, pass laws (introduced in 1923 and repealed in … against the background of low wages and discriminatory labour practices reminiscent of the apartheid era. In an …

… behind. A big reason for this was the lack of available labour for factories. Serfs were still bound to the land and were therefore not free to be used as labour for the new industries. Only when the serfs were freed … As the freed serfs provided an increasing pool of cheap labour for the factories, a small but significant working …