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… 1919 The Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) is formed in Cape Town after World … Commercial Union (ICU) absorbs a number of other nascent worker organisations and other centers, and becomes the … known. I refer to the workers on the Witwatersrand gold mines, the Natal Coal mines and the Railways. Branch …

… Durban, in Kwazulu Natal. She started modeling in 1970 and went on to win several titles. In 1972 she won the title … queens. Shange won the Miss Black South Africa title and that made her the first Black beauty queen to win a Miss … story of a country girl from Kwa Zulu-Natal to the City of Gold, Johannesburg. She enters the world of fashion and wins …

… League as a teenager. After few years he became a leather-worker by day in a furniture factory owned by the father of Ruth First ,and an unpaid staff member at Fighting Talk and New Age in his off-hours. He helped organize the May Day …

… the grandson of a slave, he studied at Shaw University and Springfield College. From about 1920 to 1936 he lived in … All African Convention. He had a reputation as a forceful and persuasive speaker. On his return to the United States he … American-African Affairs Association. He was the author of Gold and Poverty in South Africa (1938). …

… from 1931 to 1933. He was born in Yorkshire, England, and immigrated to South Africa, in 1921. He joined the CPSA in Cape Town in 1925 and was one of the party's activists most strongly in favor … the editor of the party's newspaper, the  South African Worker,  later  umsebenzi,  in 1928. In the parliamentary …

… Conference — An Inspiring Gathering by The South African Worker, 13 January 1929, South Africa …

… Front in South Africa: A Reply to S. B.”, South African Worker, 13 June 1936 …

… settling in Port Elizabeth, where he worked as a factory worker, and later became a bookkeeper in a general store in the New … Port Elizabeth. He became an active trade union activist, and joined the African National Congress (ANC) and the South … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977). From Protest to challenge: A …

… assistant magistrate. He was raised by his grandmother and uncle and only moved in with his mother when he was six … returning to Johannesburg in 1929 where he worked in a gold mine. He later moved back to the Eastern Cape to join his mother who had found work as a domestic worker in East London. In East London he came into contact …

… due to the influx control laws, she ended up as a domestic worker. Her employer soon recognised her talent for singing and introduced her to a recording company. In the meantime … She soon started performing with The Symbols, in 1972 and made Good Feelings with the band. She became the first …

… parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi Mbuli, a Xhosa  woman, and Elijah Katali, a Zulu man who was employed as a … receiving his charge for armed robbery, Mbuli received the gold disc reward from the record label EMI/CCP for his album, … of “People’s Poet” due to his contributions as a Cultural Worker.  The role of the Cultural Worker was especially …

… Kip Keino of Kenya wins the Olympic gold medal for 1,500 metres in 3 minutes 34.9 seconds. …

… It is announced that 15 000 applications per week for gold mining permits are received in Johannesburg. …

… Executive Councillor of KaNgwane, 1977, is born at Sheba Gold Mine, Barberton. …

… of 1899 to 1902. The women, Florence Phillips (1863-1940) and Emily Hobhouse (1860-1925), could not have been more … common threads running through what they hoped to achieve and they shared the same historical landscape. They may even … pets”), the move to import Chinese labour, and the “gold combine” capitalists in whose hands Milner was merely a …

… but with the need for a more sustainable source of meat and vegetable supply more land was required. Land was seized from the Khoikhoi, and later the San, to increase Dutch grazing pastures, expand … the mineral revolution with the discovery of diamonds and gold gave more impetus to the colonial government to …

… the conflicting political ideologies of imperialism and republicanism, the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand, tension between political leaders, … a stumbling block for the British Empire. The discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand Gold had been mined since the early …

… lecturer Rick Turner  “Had a huge influence on my thinking and probably was the key to persuading me to go into student politics and become a student political activist” (LRC Interview, … the same time Nupen and his fellow students started a worker’s newspaper called ‘ Isisebenzi’ (the Worker). He was …

… February 1906, the second child of Valelo James Butshingi and Angeline Nokwenjenje (nee Thuswa). He attended school at Cwecweni, a Transkei school situated between Engcobo and Idutywa. He moved to the Transvaal in 1925 to become an … trust. In the 1940s, he became involved in the Transvaal worker’s unions. However, it is not known how or when this …

… Kingdom, in 1905. She grew up in London, with her parents and brother, Frank. She graduated with a degree in English … to live in Durban , South Africa c. 1930, where she met and married dentist Billie Joseph. Her service as an … World War , and her subsequent decision to become a social worker, exposed her to some of the realities of South African …

… where he obtained a post-primary teacher's qualification and later trained in 1931-1933 as an Anglican Priest.He joined the  Industrial and Commercial Worker’s Union (ICU) ,1920s and in 1926 he became a member of …

…  [Accessed 25 October 2014]|Baard, Frances and Barbie Schreiner, (1986). My Spirit is Not Banned . … Autobiography of Helen Joseph , New York: William Morrow and Co.|Lee, R., (2009). African Women and apartheid , London: Taurus Academic Studies.|Magubane, … Women in the Cities and the Resistance Movement …

… applicable to the history of the Indians in South Africa and in the case of this thesis to PR Pather and to a lesser extent his son Masla. It is pitiable that … in a position where we know so little about the activities and achievements of these individuals and others like them …

… Robin, the Dean of Science at the University of Cape Town and physics professor, and her mother Helen, have played active roles in opposing … support work for independent black trade unions, and in worker education and adult literacy programmes in Crossroads …

… Native National Congress (later ANC) formed in 1912, and the other made up of more radical Boers who split away … Act of Union denied them voting-rights in the Transvaal and Orange Free State areas, and in the Cape Province Blacks … dockworkers, spearheaded by a prominent Malawian migrant worker and activist, Clements Kadalie.   ICU poster © unknown …

… Luli Callinicos was born in Johannesburg, and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the … age. She began her career teaching history at schools and was involved in the trade union movement.  She became a … working class, which includes a trilogy of books, namely Gold and Workers (1981), Working Life: Factories, Townships …

… Trinity College, Dublin, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and the University of London . A notable scholar, he was a Gold Medallist of Dublin University and became a D. Litt. in 1918. From 1919-1920, he was …

… of the southern African kingdoms of Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe with a special look at how they were organised and the role played by cattle, gold and ivory in these societies. During the early days of … merchants through East African harbours. Cattle, ivory and gold were important trading goods and key to the survival of …