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… Indians indentured labourers in Natal. 1860 Indentured workers, from India, arrive in Durban, Natal 1872 Law 12/1872 … (SAIC) is inaugurated on this day. January 1924 The Union Government’s Minister of the Interior, Patrick Duncan , … this day. It passes a resolution pledging support for the workers and their strike. The Natal PRC also pledges support …

… of youth congresses to serve the interests of young workers and unemployed youth. These facilitated cooperation between school students, young workers and the unemployed youth. This had the dual effect of drawing COSAS into issues which affected young workers and the unemployed youth, and drawing the congresses …

… J. Ref: RP 104/1990 South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU) is formed. The government puts forward the … and the United Democratic Front (UDF), about three million workers stayed away from their job for one day following a … spread to Soweto. Fighting started there when Zulu migrant workers armed with axes and spears attacked passengers at a …

… Sir Benegal Rama Rau, declares its support for the Union Government war effort, but demands that there should be … president Dr. A.B. Xuma in Inkululeko . The African Mine Workers' Union is formed. The ANC congress resolves to review its …

… the population census. 1938 Finds employment at Union Bank of South Africa as a marketing agent, persuading … former secretary of the Indian High Commissioner in the Union, visit Basutoland. They have discussions there with … August, An article by Sisulu appears in the pamphlet Workers Unity under the heading "The Allegiance of the Trade …

… and Earnings of South Africa's Domestic Services Workers , conducted by the Development Policy Research Unit … Cape Town, has showed that around 58 per cent of domestic workers still earn less than the minimum wage. Many women … The participants included, among others, domestic and farm workers. Many said that despite poor wages and conditions, …

… not included in the rations issued by law to indentured workers. 1869 The first “passenger Indians” arrive in Durban. … they condemn M K Gandhi and set up the Colonial Patriotic Union. 1897 A wood and iron barracks was erected in the … age and means test against Indians, other than indentured workers, seeking admission to the country, or entry to the …

… 2015]. ShowMe, (2008/8), “The 1956 Women’s march to the Union Buildings” from ShowMe, 12 December [online], Available … ia/tourism/tourist-attractions/the-1956-womens-march-to-the-union-buildings/  [Accessed: 12 January 2015]. ShowMe, …  [Accessed: 8 January 2015] Gauteng Tourism, (2015), “Union Buildings” from Gauteng Tourism [online] Available at  …

… against white rule in before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910. The Zulu population of Natal … exclusion of Africans, Coloured and Indians from the new Union constitution, forced the new urban European educated …

… Unlawful Organisations Act. 9 April, At the opening of the Union Exposition on the Witwatersrand, to mark the jubilee of … Pillay at the International Meeting of the Communist and Workers’ Parties in Moscow. 1961 Ronnie Kasrils and Chris … Whites. A raid on the South African Railway and Harbour Workers Union's office results in the seizure of individual …

… Maputo, on 30 January 1981. 22 February, The Soviet Union supports Mozambique after the South African raid on … 30 June, Zwelakhe Sisulu, President of the Black Media Workers Association of South Africa, and son of Walter … Aziz Pahad are elected. Martin Legassick, of the Marxist Workers' Tendency, a faction formed in 1979, is expelled from …

… 1940, Labour Laws Readings Callinicos, L. (1981). Gold and Workers 1886-1924 . (online) Johannesburg: Ravan Press. …

… of Life” (roll of ANC membership). Moses joins the Bakers Union that was set up by the Communist Party of South Africa … first Kotane refuses, saying he is too busy with the trade union and the ANC. Eventually he is convinced to attend a … party paper Umsebenzi (worker). Kotane moves to the Soviet Union to receive political training at the Lenin School in …

… from the University of Witwatersrand are joined by workers in protest. June 1976 © Rand Daily Mail This feature … and Mozambique, and later to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. They returned in the later 1970s as trained cadres of … of Western Cape pledged their support for striking union workers of food manufacturer Fattis and Monis. The formation …

… student organisation in the country. With the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) undergoing a … initiated a number of literacy programmes targeting black workers, particularly in the Durban area. Barney Pityana, one … the ‘organisation and functioning of the National Union of South African Students, the South African Institute …

… 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Indian indentured workers and the birth of this community in South Africa. … freedom - The 150th anniversary of the arrival of Indian workers in South Africa Indenture and Freedom Between … indentured labour was stopped) nearly 152 184 indentured workers from across India arrived in Durban. But in 1885, in …

… prepare the way for a revolution in which the urban Bantu workers would have to take the lead’. As a result, NUSAS was …

… Revolution :  A revolution led by Vladimir Lenin with workers and peasants to overthrow the Dumas Provisional … and who do not possess capital or property.  Most of these workers worked to simply survive. Rapid industrialisation :  …

… in the colony in the sugar plantations and as domestic workers. 1867 Diamonds are discovered in the Northern Cape . … of Indians to move into the interior are ex-indentured workers followed by Muslim traders.  The earliest known …

… as increasing rural poverty in the region, attracted many workers to the town to the point that, until the 1960s, it … were markedly different. Thus, as a rising number of Black workers began to enter Port Elizabeth seeking employment, so … of Hyman's Kloof, better known today as Russel Road. Other workers however chose to erect their homes closer to their …

… new hotel, mainly to accommodate railway construction workers. The hotel is moved to the centre of Nelspruit in … are drawn together into a single political entity, the Union of South Africa. 1911 April, Construction begins on a … is established to oversee the sanitation of railway workers. 1913 February, Nelspruit gets its first telephone …

… in Tsavo. Two lions kill 135 Indian and African railway workers. Lt. Col. J.H. Patterson kills the lions after … source 1940 The KCA is banned. 1942 The Kenyan African Union (KAU) is formed to push for independence. This is the … May – the KAU is renamed as the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party, formed by Tom Mboya and Oginga Odinga. …

… grade 12 material. The collapse of communism in the Soviet Union was another major cause of the end of apartheid. Under … the US and Western powers on the one hand, and the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc countries on the other. Most of newly … The ANC could also no longer rely on the Soviet Union for economic and military support. By the end of the …

… 1992. On 23 March 1992, the South African Rugby Football Union was formally established with the merging of the non-racial South African Rugby Union and the South African Rugby Board. In 2005 the unified body changed its name to the South African Rugby Union (SARU).  The history of the Rugby World Cup dates back …

… of the National Liberation Front of Algeria and the Union of Cameroonian Peoples. It is worth noting that there … Ghana and by African people in Britain, China, Soviet Union and the United States (US). Other conferences were held … of the OAU 38 years after its formation by the African Union (AU) on 25 May 2001. …

… regions of the country, annually until 1914. Most of the workers laboured in the mines at Tsumeb and LÁ¼deritz, and … and the Cape-based International and Commercial Workers’ Union. The Police Zone’s northern border, also known …

… businesses of profiting from Apartheid by paying their workers below subsistence wages. In South Africa, urban … also deteriorated and discontent mounted among both workers and the unemployed. At the same time, the relative success of the workers’ strikes and other institutional shortcomings …

… the non-student youth, unemployed youth and young workers who shared the interests and aspirations of COSAS but … STEYCO played a key role, in organizing mine and farm-workers in the areas as well as, in the Lebowa revolt of … and political organizations. Since 1976, most young workers had experienced more than a decade of unprecedented …

… labour. The prison supplemented the labour force, as many workers spent time in prison as a consequence of the pass … prisoners along racial lines. Mine owners treated white workers differently from black workers. Prisoners were forced to do hard labour. For … [accessed on 5 May 2015] |Ngubane, S. (2015). Former workers shed light on mass graves. Available at: …

… and British colonial interests, and supplies seasonal farm workers to both. 1837-1855 Printed Sotho works begin to … ties with countries of the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU), which includes Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, …