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… began working for Lonmin in 2009 and was a leader of the strike. On 16 August 2012 Mambush was killed at scene 1 after … who also depended on him for financial support. According to his sister, Nolufefe Noki, “It was really painful to hear about my brother’s death. I have since seen a doctor …

… for 75 cents per week as a dishwasher and general hand to raise funds to further his studies. He attended Naledi … of June all major black campuses endorsed a solidarity strike in his support. On 2 June 1972 students at the … Commission (TRC) to assist them in bringing his remains back into the country for re-burial. On the 20 March 1998, …

…  All Government action and response was decided according to the policy of apartheid. In turn, apartheid failed to respond effectively and adequately to concerns that had … forms of protest, including “immediate and active boycott, strike, civil disobedience, and non-co-operation,” (as stated …

… Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the Castle in Cape Town , and then moved to Johannesburg as a typist for the Mine Worker’s Union. She … In 1922 she was arrested during the Mine Worker’s strike for allegedly leading the group that set fire to the …

… (1976) ‘Kids keep up strike big march planned’, The World, 19 May, p. 4. …

… Document 131 - “Why did the V.F.P. Strike Fail?’”Workers Voice, 1 February 1944 …

… ’Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920 …

… ’Kids keep up strike big march planned’, The World. 19 May, 1976 …

… as a political prisoner in Algeria following a hunger strike. …

… BBC, (2004). 'Key Dates', Focus on Africa, January to March, v. 15 no 1, p. 9 … Matatu drivers in Kenya start a two-day strike over new safety rules. …

… ’Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920 …

… wife, mother, sister and two nieces. He had been married to his wife, Lilita Xalabile, for little over a month when he was killed. He had just returned to work after two weeks leave to prepare for the wedding, … told Lilita and I that the police were interfering in the strike and had threatened workers by saying ‘ abomama …

… At the end of a damaging six-day strike of cabin crew and ground staff, SOUTH African Airways (SAA) undertakes to improve the w …

… Document 100 - “15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike: Communist Party Calls Mass Demonstration to Commemorate”, South African Worker, 27 February 1937 …

… Black gold miners today called off their first legal strike, which lasted just one day but, according to mine ow …

… working for a coal dealer in Grahamstown. He later moved to Port Elizabeth where he was employed in a pharmacy and became local chairman of the party. Turning to trade union work, he led a successful strike of Port Elizabeth dock workers, then took up the …

… of three brothers, Scott was somewhat of a disappointment to his mother who had wanted a daughter.  In 1911, his … to force them into long-term contracts. These contracts bound the workers to arduous hours with little pay and … Federation.  The plan was for Kaunda to call for a general strike in Northern Rhodesia while WPB volunteers crossed the …

… a standing as a family – they could trace their ancestry back a few hundred years in South Africa and included people … the First World War , and his sister, Isie, was married to the General. Fischer attended the local farm school where … part, with the other White women in detention, in a hunger strike that lasted around 90 days and was only called off …

… In 1930 he was arrested in connection with the general strike in East London that was organised by the Independent … Kadalie, he moved from Johannesburg in the early 1930s to East London, where he subsequently became a member of the …

… of young Indians impatient with the divisions that had up to that time plagued Indian political organisations and … making common cause with Africans. In 1939 he was elected to the national council of the Non-European United Front. … to prove sedition in connection with the African mine strike of 1946. The following year he took an active part in …

… 1960 in Rosenkrantz, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo) to Radikubu and Nkone. He grew up in the village of Manaleng … Mphahlele spent a year in prison and embarked on a hunger strike with two fellow PAC members. Whilst in prison, Zeph … Following his release from prison, Mphahlele went back to Harare, Zimbabwe. At the airport, the immigration …

… education and then lived at Queen's while articled to a law firm in the town. In November 1910 he returned to South Africa and opened a legal practice in Johannesburg. … involving the organization from 1917 onward. During the strike by a sanitary workers employed by the Johannesburg …

… Back in the Days and into the Future: Diaspora Aesthetics in …

… Natal, the son of a sharecropper. He won a bursary to Adams College, where he completed his schooling to junior certificate level. Attracted by the  Industrial and … Assemblies Act.he pleaded guilty to aiding an illegal strike and was release after paying a fine. He died in the …

… Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma ascended to the South African presidency on 9 May 2009 on a wave of … a disgruntled contingent of the ANC, who had turned their back on the party. [6] In the media Zuma was critcised for … figures had colluded with SAPS to put an end to the strike, Zuma called for the establishment of an official …

… Born Molly Selikowitz in Lithuania in 1906, she came to South Africa as an immigrant in 1919. Petite, excitable, … forceful, and a brilliant public speaker, according to Eddie Roux, she married Douglas Wolton about 1925 and … Town and soon became involved in a tram and bus workers' strike. In August 1933, suffering from a weak heart, she left …

… for the family. The young Phillips was forced to work as a waiter and garden boy in order to pay for his education at Lovedale College. He later worked … in 1902. He was active in the 1946 National Mine Workers Strike as chairperson of the sympathy strike committee and …

… township, established by the local authorities in 1932 to the south of the city, and in line with a national urban … (PNAB) for Lamontville and Chesterville residents, on the back of bus fare increases exacerbating their existing … and worker struggles like the BTR Sarmcol workers’ strike. His photographic career was interrupted when, in …

… been lost and hundreds injured. An estimated R39m damage to SATS property was caused. South African Institute of Race … A twelve week strike by some 22 000 members of South African Transport …

… Fifty political detainees who had gone on hunger strike are released from prison. …