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BiographyHilda Bernstein
… Workers. She was a member of the South African Labour Party League of Youth until 1940. After her stint in the Labour Party. In 1937 she became a member of…
The largest three-day stay-away (5-7 June) in SA’s labour history up to this time starts, because of Black opposition to the La
… The largest three-day stay-away (5-7 June) in SA’s labour history up to this time starts, because of Black …
BiographyJoseph Mathunjwa
… and other workers fought the retrenchment through the Labour Court, and they won the case. These actions of his … of NUM, to register a new union with the…
BiographySir. Richard Bourke
… British government. The result of this law was shortage of labour as well as robbery, especially round the Hottentot …
BiographyMary Fitzgerald
… of the miners and soon had many followers. In 1909, at the Labour Party conference, she was the only woman present among …
BiographyValiamma Munuswami Mudaliar
… and sentenced to three months imprisonment with hard labour. She was only 16 years old at this time. When …
BiographyShapurji Sorabji
… and was sentenced to a month's imprisonment with hard labour. Released on 19 August, he was deported to the … served numerous sentences of imprisonment with…
BiographyGünther Komnick
… in his youth, to spending the end of the war in a Russian labour camp, from the ages of 15 to 18, together with his … and younger sister. It was during these…
BiographyJames Barry Munnik Hertzog
… Hertzog and F.H.P. Creswell, leader of the South African Labour Party, together as they ended up establishing … the new Prime Minister and included two…
BiographyThabiso Johannes Thelejane
… dependent on him. Because Mr Thelejane was employed by a labour broker, Lonmin refused to acknowledge responsibility …
BiographyNadirshah Ardeshir Cama
… the Black Act and sentenced to three months with hard labour. In June, soon after his release, the Indian community … mission. He served another term of…
BiographyEdwin Cameron
… in law. His practice was mainly concerned with labour and employment law, and therefore Cameron defended … He has written scholarly articles on the…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… in his kingdom. He had also sent a number of his men to labour in the diamond mines, thus setting a precedence for … of his ‘Native Bill’, to force more…
BiographyElliot Tonjeni
… eventually brought him a two-month sentence with hard labour for "provoking hostility between the races." He died …
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
… where he devoted much of his life to political and labour struggles. His initiation into protest politics took … as the CPSA disbanded. Mokgatle's various…
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
… and was passionate about singing freedom, socialist and labour songs. During his singing career, he met the … Congress members, anti-apartheid activists,…
BiographyJames Maci
James Maci, from the Maci Tribal Area, Harding District, Natal [KwaZulu-Natal] was banished on 12 October 1959 to the Kalkspruit Native Trust Farm No. 812,…
ArchiveReview: Industrialisation and trade union organisation in South Africa, 1924-55; the rise and fall of the South African Trades and Labour Council: Jon Lewis
… 1924-55; the rise and fall of the South African Trades and Labour Council: Jon Lewis …
The Role of the Working Class and Organised Labour in Advancing the National Democratic Revolution by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… The Role of the Working Class and Organised Labour in Advancing the National Democratic Revolution by …
BiographyRichard Ernest van der Ross
… part in establishing and became the first president of the Labour Party of South Africa, which has contested elections … the Coloured "convention" movement,…
BiographyJacob Dumdum Nyaose
… was formed shortly after Nyaose was elected secretary for labour in the PAC's national executive committee in April …
BiographyMogoeng Thomas Mogoeng
… the University of South Africa (UNISA). He specialised in Labour Law, Law of Property, Insurance Law, Law of Evidence, … High Court. In April 2000, he was…
BiographyNontetha Nkwenkwe
… felt by women facing increased family and work stresses as labour migration spread. Like Nontetha’s movement, these …
BiographyNorman Levy
… been brought to Zambia and Zimbabwe by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). He was later commissioned by the … Service. He designed affirmative…
Vella Pillay
… by an organized system of white domination and cheap labour, initially pursued by the British colonialists to meet the labour needs of the gold mining…
BiographyNdeutala Selma Hishongwa
… in northern Namibia. She has also published T he Contract Labour System and its Effects on Family and Social Life in …
BiographyKesval “Kay” Moonsamy
… was sent to Ixopo Prison where he was sentenced to hard labour. He was a defendant in the 1956 Treason Trial from …
BiographyBettie du Toit
… Fort Prison in Johannesburg and fined one pound or 10 days labour. In an interview with Luli Callilinicos Du Toit … was elected to the national executive of…
Joel Joffe
… dying for the terminally ill. He was made a Peer of the Labour Party in the House of Lords, and was awarded a CBE by … parliament’s upper House of Lords in…
BiographyJohanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers
… the GWU at conferences of the South African Trades and Labour Council and at the meetings of its local committee in … GWU′s No.1 branch in Johannesburg and…