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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Vella Pillay
… designated whether or not they were entitled to live in urban areas. In support of this campaign I traveled in the …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
ArticleHostel Dwellers Association (HDA)
… acceptance of the rights of hostel dwellers as permanent urban residents. …
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…
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…
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
… towns, railways, roads and harbours were built, and new urban markets opened up for locally produced food and …
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…
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…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… Music Music was a central feature of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg and in … took place. Early beginnings In the 1920s and 1930s the urban…