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ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
… as a deliberate attempt to ignore political and community issues and has resulted in FOSATU being described as concerned with "bread and butter" issues only…
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… of whatever one wants to look at, be it political issues, cultural or social problems. This applies equally to … was one of the methods used to force…
European Revolutions 1750-1850
… of wealth and power from the feudal aristocracy to the urban middle classes, and we compare the situation in France … The Industrial Revolution shifted…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… with cultural workers to create plays that addressed issues faced by workers, supported protest action and … levels of poverty resulting from the demolition…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… system. The trade union movement spread to other urban areas, such as Natal, where it found an effective … of consolidating and organising the workforce in…
ArticleSweet Food and Allied Workers Union (SFAWU)
… Union (SFAWU) was established in 1974 with the help of the Urban Training Project (UTP). Amongst its founder members …
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… which is the natural result of multi-racial contacts in urban areas, combined with economic difficulties and backed … Africans as part of the United Party on…
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… had populations of Black South Africans designated by the Urban Areas Act of 1961 for the relocation of the Black … views. Though the current and historical…
Vella Pillay
… designated whether or not they were entitled to live in urban areas. In support of this campaign I traveled in the …
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… South African government and focuses on improving women’s issues within the country as well as increasing women’s … would help to improve gender equality and…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… by Africans (Beinhart, 2001: 10). 1923 The Native Urban Areas Act was passed by the Smuts government. The Act … 1949: 174). 1937 An amendment was made to the…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… appear to have much interest in important higher education issues at institutional and national levels, or in crucial political and social issues. Some…
Exhibition: Durban, 1973: Strike against cheap labour by David Hemson
… graphic narrative will include short term contracts, no urban rights, ultra low pay, brutal regime in compounds, rule … Author of a book and of chapters and…
ArticleFederation of Transvaal Women (FEDTRAW)
… that allowed women in the Transvaal to work together on issues such as high food process. High rents, conscription of … women and resolved to organise rural…
EPILOGUE
… It is unfortunate that your reply has not addressed the issues I raised in my memorandum of the 26th June, 1992. … because you have chosen to elevate a…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… Africans is tightened. This is reflected in the Native Urban Areas Act of 1923 which regulates the influx of Africans into urban areas. It establishes the…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… early in the 20th century resulted in the Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923, which provided for stricter controls over the influx of Blacks into urban areas…
TCOE Online Exhibition
… build solidarity and deepen the understanding between urban and rural South Africans around the need for redress …
Schlebusch Commission
… which would prepare the way for a revolution in which the urban Bantu workers would have to take the lead’. As a …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… sent Helen Joseph and Bertha Mashaba on a tour of the main urban areas, accompanied by Robert Resha of the ANC and … in the Orange Free State declared that…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… In the wake of the urban revolt of 1976 and with prospects of a national … their workers below subsistence wages. In South Africa, urban conditions for…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… were arranged, but were not always very successful. Issues surrounding coordination continued to be discussed and … on People's Education. Protest remained…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… the violence. A number of reports have highlighted various issues contributing to xenophobia; some of which include poor … attacks occur in certain…
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini and the KwaZulu homeland. Issues After the negotiating parties had agreed and signed … five working groups were elected to deal…
ArticleHostel Dwellers Association (HDA)
… acceptance of the rights of hostel dwellers as permanent urban residents. …
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… for leading political activists to debate political issues was unwittingly provided by their detention at … opposition during the 1980s was not confined to…
PlaceZambia
… Nyanja or Chewa (20%), Tonga (12%) and Lozi (6%). An urban variety of Nyanja (Chewa) is the lingua franca,( which … to pay for medical help suffers a lot…
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
… towns, railways, roads and harbours were built, and new urban markets opened up for locally produced food and …
Control: 1910 - 1948
… purpose and it was from these reserves that the mines and urban employers were to draw migrant labour. In addition to … serve as pools of migrant labour for…
Zulu Community
… in the KwaZulu-Natal Province. Many Zulu live in the urban centres of Durban, Pietermaritzburg and in the Gauteng … Durban after the Cape Governor of the…