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Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… One of the earliest labour laws is the Master and Servants Act, Act 15 of 1856, of the Cape Province. In the Transvaal, … 7 of 1904. In 1911, the Union…
Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. Presented to 2nd National Anti-CAD Conference, 4-5 January 1944
… peak point in the resistance of the Africans to the three Native Acts (the Representation of Natives Act; the Land and Trust Act and the Amendment to the…
ABBREVIATIONS USED
… Committee (SACTU) NIC - Natal Indian Congress NL (SD) Act - Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act (1953) NOC - National Organizing Committee (SACTU)…
For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated February 23, 1934.
… as a dream than a reality, to them it sounds like the ‘land of Canaan’ which can be ‘attained only after death.' The Independent Native Republic which in…
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… girls they had been beating up, had been driven off the land through poverty to find employment in the cities as … of the provisions of sub-section (12) of…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… charged very high prices. Increasingly the Khoikhoi lost land and cattle to the Dutch as the settlement grew. This … 2020), Available at: Image Source The…
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
… Representative Council, a body established through an Act which had also deprived Africans of the vote (i.e., the … had revolved around the so-called black…
Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… has been deleted, and we also find that the status of the native has been clearly and distinctly defined. Naturally … The decision was given in 1895 that the…
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… has been deleted, and we also find that the status of the native has been clearly and distinctly defined. Naturally … The decision was given in 1895 that the…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… in 1854, and included those who were in possession of land and who may have been able to claim their right to it. … in any way. Later, a White representative…
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… 3. The establishment of a Committee by the Minister of Native Affairs in consultation with agricultural unions to … farm labour. 4. The objection to…
Chapter 7
… and therefore had no need to fear us, he would give us-land and liberty to lead our own lives as we please. "For … Whites are worried over our terrible…
EventThe Native Affairs Commission went once more to Ntabelanga for negotiations
… In a last attempt at negotiations with the Israelites, the Native Affairs Commission (NAC) went once more to Ntabelanga … final ultimatum demanding that the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… and a six-month suspended sentence. Unlawful Organisations Act used to ban the ANC and PAC. 31 March, Four more … 15 July, H.A. Fagan, former Chief Justice…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… a mere two years later, ruled the country. 2 By mid-1961, native Algerians seemed on the verge of victory in a bloody … campaigns had been based. Other…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… to take up a grievance, to lead the workers themselves to act on it unitedly, that is the lifeblood of trade unionism. … how to respond to the government's…
EventKarel Schoeman, well known Afrikaans author, is born
… he is renowned in South Africa, recognition outside of his native country is only slowly coming. This is no doubt due to …
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… Movement, were reborn as black” (Neither Settler nor Native; 31). What happened in South Africa was … independence in the colonial world” …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Early Writings
… always complain of the Government not giving them enough land for fields. But an Indian farmer gets rich and … Our rural communities suffer greatly from…
PlaceAgate Terrace, Port St. Johns
… cow’s head. Along these Wild Coast, hills one finds Native life as primitive as is possible to see, and the view …
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… Gokomere communities survived by farming and mining the land. The area marks the earliest Iron Age settlements known … empires: Torwa and Mutapa. 1483 CE…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… militancy of African workers. The Suppression of Communism Act of 1950, designed in part to weaken the trade union … of them Africans. However, as already…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… bullets, Africans fought grimly in defence of their land and their national independence. The armed struggle was … Representative Council, the Transkeian…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… and the repressive state. In 1936 the government's Native Affairs Commission stated that: "Turning the Native into a lower class of the population must…
Document 35 - “New Tactics Proposed for N.R.C. Boycott: Xuma’s Address to African Congress”, The Guardian, 18 December 1947
… of the African people." Dr Xuma said the Government's act in sidestepping the present councillors had influence … the resolution to boycott the Natives…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… together in Bloemfontein to form the South African Native National Congress (later renamed the African National Congress). In 1902 the South African Native…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… particular was described as being “superior to any other native settlement on the coast” with the people being “the … away, the wives took care of his assets…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… politicians. It is the kernel of what is badly named the "-Native Question," a misnomer for what would be better … sole help today for correcting such…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
PlaceRwanda
… Rwanda is a land-locked Country located in the Eastern part of Africa . … as this required the clearing of forests to open up land [xxix] . This had the…