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ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… end of his life. March, CHAP releases a twenty page health manual written by Asvat. The manual provided information on preventive health care, child …
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… was appointed as an Acting Judge at the South African Labour Court. Concurrently, Mpofu was chosen to serve as the … Southern African Broadcasters…
BiographyDr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
… on the thesis, A Bed Called Home, Life in the Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town was published in 1993. In 1991, …
BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
… Not just a play.” Malange worked extensively within the labour movement, serving in many roles including as an …
BiographyBilly Nair
… In the 1980s he established the Centre for Community and Labour Studies, an NGO which serviced the trade union …
BiographyDawood Seedat
… themselves. Seedat was sentenced to three months with hard labour. When he was released on 17 July 1941, pamphlets were …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… and adequately to concerns that had led to intermittent labour and civic unrest that erupted in the aftermath of … escalated, becoming more frequent and…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… This demanded an ever-increasing supply of cheap Black labour for the mines, the farms, the towns. In other words, … to spend their lives in daily labour, in…
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
… also served to reignite the ANC, and a sort of division of labour existed between the two organisations. Moroka was one … and sentenced to nine months'…
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
Wendy Heather Woods (neè Bruce) was born on 5 February 1941 in Mthatha (formerly Umtata), Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). An outstanding pupil in school,…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… He found kindred thinkers in the Militant Tendency of the Labour Party [forerunners of the Socialist Party] that had …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… Dickensian Children’s Home where the children did forced labour and were at the receiving end of many tortures and … race classification, forced removals,…
BiographyTheophilus Shepstone
… of tapping the great wealth in minerals and migrant labour within the African interior and channelling it through … and mining would benefit by gaining a…
BiographySir. Theophilus Shepstone
… of tapping the great wealth in minerals and migrant labour within the African interior and channelling it through … and mining would benefit by gaining a…
PlaceCape Columbine Nature Reserve
Near Paternoster on the West Coast. One of the highlights being the Cape Columbine Lighthouse about 5km away along a gravel road. The Nature Reserve is…
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… men in the Consulate on 27 September 1984 and by a British Labour Party Member of Parliament, Donald Anderson, in …
BiographyHumphrey Phakade “Pax” Magwaza
… policy. The policy aimed at ensuring a supply of cheap labour for urban industries while yet keeping the aspirant …
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… Was the system of indentured Indian labour "a new system of slavery"?as Hugh Tinker entitles his … as slaves. The men were imprisoned and assigned to hard…
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… make-up of southern Africa was the creation of a migrant labour system from the 1870s onwards. Provisions for the … enterprises in the Colony. The resultant…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos THE CHANGE TO WAGE LABOUR has described some of the different ways in which people lost the use of the land and…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… leader of the ICU, called for the mobilization of labour unions and strike action alongside his ally Gumede, … Socialism. Socialism we are told aims at co…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… was friendly with de Klerk’s father, a former minister of labour, called the old man and apologised because, contrary … areas of the Republic for as long as…
BiographyJames la Guma
… two friends, responded to an advertisement for 'Cape boy' labour in German South West Africa (Namibia) out of a desire …
BiographyFranco Frescura
… projects, including churches, community halls and labour-intensive work generators. Once the ban on the ANC was …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Early Writings
… man was agricultural work. Some educated people disparage manual labour; they say it is too inferior for them; they appreciate … after they leave school. The…
Why protect worker’s rights?
… in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour: workers had to contend with the migrant labour system, passes and influx control, job…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… HOLIDAY ON 16 NOVEMBER TO ACKNOWLEDGE ITS INDENTURED LABOUR HERITAGE By Brij Maharaj … tional-holiday-on-16-november-to-acknowledge-its-indentured-labour…
BiographyKing Sarhili kaHintsa
… Xhosa by using basic means of sustenance as a trade into labour contracts for the needs of the colony. King Sarhili …
BiographySantu Mofokeng
… pp. 24-29. ‘Going Home’. Leadership S.A. 9, no. 2 (1990). ‘Labour Tenants'. Sta ffrider 9, no. 3 (1991), pp. 51-54. …
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… Verwoerd argued that apartheid was just a matter of good labour policy. However, a number of Commonwealth prime …