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ArchiveIR Workers Organisations African Unions 1981
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations African Unions 1980
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
… Celebrating 50 Years Conference The first shoots of worker culture emerged in the early eighties with the first … experiments in workshopped worker theatre…
BiographyAyesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood
… Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an Indian Merchant and a Malay woman. As a young girl, Asa (as she was called) used to read the newspaper to her father…
BiographyRafique (Rafs) Mayet
… Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). Mayet matriculated in Durban and worked at various jobs since completing school, including … local shipyards, as a computer…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… © Bailey's African History Archives During the 1970s, and particularly in the late 1970s after the Soweto uprising … of 1976, there was increasing pressure,…
Reclaiming Radical Traditions of Workers' Education by Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton
… 50 Years Conference South African trade unions have a long and rich history of inventing creative approaches to workers’ education. The period following the…
BiographyNtwaesele “Fish” Keitseng
… At the age of 23, he came to South Africa as a mineworker and became one of the original members of the African … Union led by J.B. Marks .In 1949, he left…
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… son of Martha Mahlangu. His father left him in 1962, and from then on only saw him infrequently. His mother was a domestic worker and took sole…
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
… action in the 1950s, Njongwe was president of the Cape ANC and chief organiser of the Defiance Campaign in the eastern … Cape in 1952. He was born at Qumbu…
BiographyJoseph Mathunjwa
… Army, the Christian church known for charitable work and evangelic fervour. He worked as the laboratory assistant … He also forced management to take…
BiographyDon Mattera
… then moved to Johannesburg where Mattera's father was born and classified Italian by the authorities. His mother was a Motswana and domestic worker in…
Vella Pillay
… 1923, Johannesburg. My family, father, mother, sister and myself lived in two rooms in an extended courtyard of … the British colonialists to meet the labour…
Joseph Zenzele Mavi
… in 1938,Mavi matriculated at St John's High School and moved to Johannesburg in 1957,taking a series of semi-skilled jobs and gaining political experience…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… resistances such as the Sharpeville massacre , Vaal and the East Rand in 1985 and Soweto uprising of 1976 . The apartheid era ended in … drills deep into the…
References and links: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… References and links: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa …
Establishment of the Cape and its impact on Khoikhoi and Dutch
… by taking possession of land, expanding trade routes and establishing trade outposts in the Dutch East Indies. In … at the Cape to provide fresh supplies of…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… of or regarding for the history of the nations, peoples and states. Consider the case of the war in Sierra Leone … often advanced as the sine quo non of …
BiographyMilwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba
… for art which his father encouraged by buying him pencils and crayons. The young Pemba became notorious for escaping … in the school library. As a 16 year…
In the Athens Paralympic Games Natalie du Toit wins her fifth gold medal, the 50m freestyle, in a world record 29.52sec, after
… the Athens Paralympic Games Natalie du Toit wins her fifth gold medal, the 50m freestyle, in a world record 29.52sec, …
Dora Nginza
… as a result of her commitment to helping the sick and downtrodden and adopting homeless children. She laid the foundation of … tribute to her years of…
Safety and security issues
… Domestic Violence and Abuse Assault victim. Julesburg clinic. Northern … form of violence. In many domestic violence cases women and girls are often battered…
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
… as equal citizens. South African women -under the social and even legal control of their fathers or husbands - were … obviously doubly disadvantaged as a…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… South Africa that swept through the country in the 1980s, and the changing geopolitical circumstances on the … after spending 18 years on Robben Island…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… Land and labour are two very important elements of the economic development of a society, and the way they are used will influence how the society … there…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… South Africa, their treatment after the South African War and numerous laws that controlled and restricted black movement and labour. The end of the South…
ArticleSilverton and Soekmekaar trial
… publicised South African guerrilla trials, the Silverton and Soekmekaar trial. The charges brought against the accused … plans to attack the Port Natal…
ArticleCouncil policies and practice
… The council was divided, with verligtes and verkramptes pulling in different directions. It was … abolishing laws that made life for Black, Coloured and…
ArticleInsurrections I: Tracks and Lyrics
… explain The river has not changed with the passing of time And the boat, the boatmen remain the same Now tell me what … do we cross over now) 2. Ghosts…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… a more complex picture of the history of the groups and collectives that played a role in developing what became … machinery tried to control what was…