SAHO global search

1940-2020

Paul David

Devadas Paul David ( Paul David) was born on 26 August 1940 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - UKZN) into a devout Catholic family.  His…

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1934-2011

Professor Kader Abdul Asmal

… For the next 25 years, specializing in human rights, labour and international law, he lectured in Dublin and rose … 150 articles on legal and political…

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1920-1964

Vuyisile Mini

… Mini's father was a Port Elizabeth dockworker active in labour and community struggles, which inspired Mini, at 17, … and fought against the use of convicts…

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1925-2009

Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams

… was around this time that she became actively involved in labour politics and joined the Food and Canning Workers … was elected to Parliament in April 1995…

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1935-1988

Sydney Alex Kumalo

… The personalities organised themselves into units such as labour unions and other professional bodies that strived to …

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1921-1993

Andries Treurnicht

… with S.P. Botha the Minister of manpower, on government’s labour policy. In 1982 he led a conservative faction that …

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1947

Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe

… Secretary General. In 1988 he became the Coordinator of Labour Studies at the UBUNTU Social development Institute, a …

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1946

Malcolm Payne

… of society, whether this be racism, the exploitation of labour, the oddness and lingering potency of old monuments, …

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1950-2015

Virginia Engel

… for the Western Cape . She also took part in multiple labour campaigns like the Fattis and Monis workers' strike …

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1931-2018

Eric Mtshali

… since 2004. He has sat on the parliamentary committees on Labour, on Higher Education and Training and on Human …

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1932

Dr. Frene Noshir Ginwala

… agriculture towards manufacturing [1] .  A hierarchy of labour soon developed. Managerial positions and skilled labour were reserved for white worker;…

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1906

George Arthur Heard

… to the mild brand of socialism espoused by the white Labour Party of that era. In 1942 his employers became …

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1893-1988

Raymond Arthur Dart

Raymond Dart was born on 4 February 1893 in Toowong, Brisbane, Australia. He attended university in Queensland and Sydney. In 1920, Dart pursued further study…

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Mahomed Dawood Barmania

… was in 1914 in protest against the deportation of labour leaders. Having lost control of the SAIC in October …

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1922-2009

Pauline Podbrey

… two study groups, the Communist Youth League and the Labour League of Youth, and through them became part of the … Communist Party of South Africa, Communist…

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1918-1990

Frank Alexander Landman

… strikes. He also supported a call for demonstrations on Labour Day and a boycott of ‘coloured’ elections [iv] . He … 1964. His family, who were already in…

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1893-1975

Allison Wessels George Champion

…  in the late 1920s, Champion held the post of “minister of labour” in the ANC National Executive. When Pixley Seme …

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1913-1994

Stephen J.C. Dlamini

… for young political prisoners to whom they taught Marxist labour theory. After his release from prison, he was banished …

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1929-2026

Leon Levy

… and published several works relating to trade unions and labour relations issues. He joined the Commission for …

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1932-2002

Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu

… the Defiance Campaign . During this period, he joined the labour movement and in the late 1950s became an organizer in …

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1948-2003

Magwaza Alfred Maphalala

… Mabhida. Maphalala represented SACTU at the International Labour Organisation and other international forums. In 1983 … • Sithole, J. and Ndlovu, S., 2006. …

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1908-1981

Eli Weinberg

… to the local committee of the South African Trades and Labour Council. They divorced on 2 May 1940. In 1950, he was … of the local committee of the South…

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1884-1933

Richard Msimang

… found guilty and sentenced to two months' hard labour. This led to a series of protest meetings by the …

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1856-1919

Saul Msane

… for a gold mine in Johannesburg. He later became a black labour recruitment agent for black labourers, a paying …

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Ambrose Makiwane

… his enrollment. Makiwane got involved in politics and the labour movement after finishing high school but before …

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1914-2004

Ray Alexander Simons

… at Manchester University. Together they wrote the classic labour history Class and Colour in South Africa: 1850 - 1950, …

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1905-1930

Johannes Nkosi

A martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA and SACP after 1953), was the son of Jacobina Nkosi (no details of his father could be traced).  Nkosi…

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