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BiographyManiben Sita
… the TIC. Her father encouraged all seven of his children to educate themselves and become active participants in … ) on the special bus hired for the journey…
Tony Blair flies into the Mozambique capital, Maputo, warning fellow world leaders there could be "no back-sliding" a
… Maputo, warning fellow world leaders there could be "no back-sliding" a …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… increasingly under threat however, as African resistance to the racially based system rapidly escalated. This crisis was brought to a head by the continuing…
BiographyBettie du Toit
… and Du Toit met South African textile workers were on strike over unsatisfactory employment conditions and low … wages. The Textile Workers Union was seeking…
ArticleAn Introduction to Sophiatown
… a pleasant white suburb that could be developed on a site to the West of Johannesburg. It was some way out of town, on … - Edith, Gerty, Bertha, Toby, Sol -…
BiographyDenis Mayer
… Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to South Africa from England in the 1890s to seek his fortune on the diamond and gold fields. His …
BiographyIsaac Osier Horvitch
… was charged with sedition, arising from the 1946 miner's strike. In 1948 he became an active opponent of the policies … after the Sharpeville massacre in…
ArchiveStatement of the church leaders regarding detentions, the hunger strike and the State of Emergency
… of the church leaders regarding detentions, the hunger strike and the State of Emergency …
ArchiveMaking Our Voices Hear: OK Workers Talk About The Strike by SPEAK, 1991 – 1994, Johannesburg
… Making Our Voices Hear: OK Workers Talk About The Strike by SPEAK, 1991 – 1994, Johannesburg …
”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A National Struggle.”flyer issued by the ANC Youth League, August 1946
… in the history of mankind. Their struggle is a challenge to the whole economic and political structure of South … Labour are misappropriated by the whites…
BiographyBennett Seitshiro
… in the ANC since 1937; helped the 1946 African miners' strike; and a key Congress figure in Newclare. …
The Durban Strikes of 1973 and the End of a Cycle of Struggle by Mondli Hlatshwayo
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … 1973, and the subsequent struggles waged by workers, led to the…
Half a century later: Durban Strikes – 1973 by Gerhard Maré
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference …
Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise
… Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise …
Virgile Joseph Bonhomme
… at all furniture manufacturing companies in the then Natal to attend meetings to demand higher wages. Appalled at the miserably low wages, … his brother,…
BiographyLinda Komape
… the Metal and Allied Workers Union , and participated in a strike in 1976. After this she was fired, and since she was … menial tasks were divided. Komape…
BiographyMoses Jongizizwe Mayekiso
… Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 children to Ellen and Betwell Mayekiso. He attended the Askeaton … School in Pondoland East. In 1972…
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
… a Talmudic scholar, had fled the pogroms in Lithuania to England. His father Woolfie, was born in Manchester, England but immigrated to South Africa where…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… will be posting all of your comments on our blog. Pledging to Debate History The pledge proposed by the Minister of … patriotism. Some see in the pledge a…
American Secretary of State Hay warns Moroccan authorities that Perdicaris must be brought back alive, or his abductor, Raizuli
… warns Moroccan authorities that Perdicaris must be brought back alive, or his abductor, Raizuli …
BiographyDouglas G. Wolton
… of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to 1933. He was born in Yorkshire, England, and immigrated to South Africa, in 1921. He joined the…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… elected the ANC’s national chairperson. Mandela continued to negotiate with President F.W. de Klerk toward the … Centre in Johannesburg. White South Africans…
BiographyJune Rose Nala
… plant. She described her first day on the job in The Road to Democracy in South Africa : We were taken into our … will be a weaver...I am told that my…
BiographyLucas Radebe
… When he was 15 years old, his parents sent him away to Bophuthatswana to avoid the violence in the township. Soccer was one of his … scouts, who signed him…
BiographyLionel Rusty Bernstein
… Hilton College in Natal. After matriculating, he returned to Johannesburg where he started work at an architect’s … in 1936, he worked full-time as an…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa's longest wage strike
… South Africa's longest and biggest strike was organised by the National Union of Mineworkers … Black mineworkers in the gold and coal mines belonging to the…
“Human beings with Souls”: Reconsidering The Durban Strikes Pamphlet by Alex Lichtenstein
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract: To this day, the only book-length study of the mass strikes ……
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… British colonial government and the Voortrekkers managed to defeat him and brought some of the minor chiefdoms under … in Johannesburg. First, municipal…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … the ICU branch was established in 1925 and it appealed to many Zulu…
BiographyJames J. Majoro
… of the accused in the trial that followed the 1946 mine strike. He was an organizing secretary of the Orlando branch …