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An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… Oxford. S. Trapido : Mr. Champion, why do you think the ICU was so strong in Natal? A. Champion : The reason was that … buy a permit to allow you to be there…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… - Adapted from "The Workers' Herald", the newspaper of the ICU, 15 November, 1926 Those who became migrant labourers on … Industrial and Commercial Workers'…
BiographyJohann Christiaan Kriegler
An advocate at the Johannesburg Bar for 25 years, prior to becoming a provincial and thereafter appellate judge, Judge Johann Christiaan Kriegler was appointed…
EventTrade unionist Clements Kadalie dies in East London
… established the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) in 1919. The purpose of this union was to protect the … from being exported at Cape Town's…
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), New Frame republishes work by historian Shula Marks … and Commercial Workers’ Union of Natal …
BiographyGraeme Pollock
Robert Graeme Pollock was born on 27 February 1944 in Durban. His father was a first-class cricketer and editor of the Port Elizabeth Herald. Pollock attended…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
… class consciousness as evidenced by the formation of the ICU which eclipses the ANC. 1910 Sol Plaatje becomes the … 7 January, The Industrial and Commercial…
Document 17 - Letter from E. R. Roux to W.G. Ballinger, 19 March 1929
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 17 - Letter from E. R. Roux to W.G…
BiographyPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn
Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn was born 7 December 1934 in Teplice, Czechoslovakia (currently in Czech Republic). At the end of World War II he had to flee his home…
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
… activists of the 1920s - including members of the ICU, the Communist Party and the African National Congress …
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… Industrial & Commercial Workers Union of South Africa(ICU) Inqubela Phambili Trade Union (ITU) Labour Equity …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… new constitution for the Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) as a nation-wide union. D.D.T Jabavu , eldest son of … Affairs Act of 1920. June, The third…
BiographyCassim Amra
Cassim Amra was born in 1919 in Durban Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He attended Sastri College, Durban where he represented the senior cricket team. Amra was…
Chapter 2
… In 1919 the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU) was born. A strike for increased wages at the Cape Town …
BiographyGuy Tillim
Guy Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a collective of South…
EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… later renamed the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) was founded by Clements Kadalie, a young Nyassalander … them to proceed carefully in their…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… their part in the campaign against imperialist war. An ICU official in the audience recalled the king's personal … and cheaper labour. Social democracy had…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… Trade Union, the Industrial Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) under Clemens Kadalie. The ICU started as union organizing dockworkers in Cape Town. By …
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
… When the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) was formed in Cape Town in 1909 there was much hope for the improvement of worker rights. In Durban…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… than others. By 1928, the Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) did little to offer solidarity for Blacks as it was …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… itself by revitalising its branches. Significantly, the ICU declined and ceased to be the dominant force in the South … supported by the Industrial and…
The International Socialist League (ISL)
… into the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) which went on to become the biggest and most powerful …
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Minister of National Education F.W. de Klerk announces curbs on universities in terms of which they can have their subsidies cu
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… movement. [11] Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU): The Industrial and Commercial Workers Union African … in early 1920s . Industrial and…
Document 12 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi19 to E. R. Roux 20, 27 January 1927
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 12 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi19 to E. R. Roux…
ArchiveInterview with Mr H Molooi
… Secretary for the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU). …
EventAllison Wessels George (Mhlongo) Champion is born
… branch of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) when it relocated its headquarters from Cape Town to …
BiographyJohn Matshikiza
John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph)…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… from the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU). The ICU in Ottosdal was led by a man named Jason Jingoes, who had … chief and was now a labour…