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… Lawrence Nkosi was born in 1910. He was a factory worker and active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the Freedom Charter took place. In …

… as she had separated from her husband before Lucky’s birth and was forced to leave Lucky and her other two children, Thandi and Patrick, in the care … She earned such meagre wages in her job as domestic worker that she was barely able to send money back home for …

… The SA Minister of Finance attacks the United States and other former ‘gold pool’ countries for attempting to reduce the moneta …

… Hugh Masekela strikes gold with the breezy, Latin-soul instrumental Grazing in the Grass, while Gary Puckett and The Union Gap …

… F.B. Deemin, a gold digger of Johannesburg, is hanged in Australia for murdering his first wife and casting her in a cement blo …

… The Leadership of Cosatu, the ANC, and SANCO, Comrades and friends This Workers Day takes place in the year when we … has the right to fair labour practices, and that every worker has the right to strike. The ANC government has also … of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015 …

… George Hunter, light heavyweight boxer (Olympic gold 1948), is born in South Africa. …

… Labour time in South African gold mines: 1886-2006 by Paul Finlay Stewart …

… Struben, one of the discoverers of the Witwatersrand gold reef, is born. …

… Gold is discovered in former Rhodesia, 320 km south of …

… of Chinese labourers leaves China for the Witwatersrand gold mines. …

… George Walker discovers gold while laying the foundations for a house on the …

… In January 1922 some 22 000 white miners downed their tools and went on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion … or the Red Revolt. Eventually martial law was proclaimed and the Smuts government sent in the defence force, which … were faced with rising costs and a fall in the price of gold. Mining Capital realised the need to reduce costs and it …

… they were unaware of the lessons of history both ancient and modern, that absolutely nothing will stop a people from … persons is respected, who can assume the responsibilities and obligations that are the necessary concomitants of the … they yearn for with all their being... We all, black and white together, belong to South Africa and blacks yield …

… of 1912 Botha dismissed  J B M Hertzog  from his cabinet and Roos protested by demonstrating at the statue of  Paul … the Appeal Court bench. When Britain was forced off the  gold standard  in 1931 the Hertzog government decided to not … Smuts was determined that the Union should also leave the gold standard, and Roos strongly agreed with him. In 1932 he …

… to as Thomas Baines). His father was a master mariner and Baines was educated at Horatio Nelson’s Classical and … Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and received its gold medal in 1858. Later he was artist to David Livingstone … he visited the Injembe district of Natal to investigate gold deposits and attended King Cetshwayo’s coronation. He …

… of Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool in Pretoria won first place and gold in the folklore w …

… Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling win the first gold medal for SA for the 4 x 100m relay at the …

… The first ‘Burgerspond’, named after Pres. T.F. Burgers and made of gold from Pilgrim’s Rest, is handed in London to J.J. Pratt …

… Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling win the first gold medal for SA for the 4 x 100m relay at the …

… mother was a qualified teacher, but worked as a domestic worker. Household conditions forced Florence to drop out of the school during Std 6 and look for a job to assist her mother to raise her siblings. She first worked as a domestic worker and later in a factory. Mophosho drew inspiration from the …

… in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade unionist and a leader of the  African National Congress  in the Cape. …

… Convention Forthcoming Conference,” South African Worker, 13 November 1937 …

… Ravan Worker Series: The Sun Shall Rise for the Workers (Ilanga …

… The birth of the Industrial and Commercial Union of South Africa (ICU) came about after … delegates from the ICU, the Cape Town branch of the IWA and worker’s movements in Port Elizabeth, East London and Aliwal … Industrial and Commercial Workers Union …

… brokerage in London. His efforts impressed his employer and in 1902, at the age of 22, he was sent to South Africa to … or Zambia today. To access a social history of diamond and gold mining in South Africa, taking a contrary approach to … financed largely by the AAC. The company expanded its gold mining influence by venturing into the Orange Free State …

… (A.M.E.) In Evaton, Gow was immersed in an ethos of music and culture, and sang at church and at community weddings. She was … the Nico Malan Theatre. Gow had qualified as a social worker in 1965, so therefore began to work among farm workers …

… Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway worker and Alice (nee Okwuekwuhe).  Her Igbo parents were from the … she spent most of her childhood. The family was very poor and the mother did not have a formal education. The family … w.sahistory.org.za/article/women-african-literature-writing-and-representation   [Accessed online 4 February …

… Eastern Cape . She was formally educated in South Africa and abroad specializing in teaching, social work, communications and management. She is a qualified social worker with a post-graduate degree from the University of …