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BiographySimon van der Stel
… variety of vineyards were soon laid out on this land and a labour force of slaves worked the harvest. While it is …
BiographyNana Sita
… in October 1946 and was sentenced to 30 days` hard labour. After release, he went to prison a second time. …
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… by denying them food. They were subjected to hard labour under these conditions, for example, pushing an iron …
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… sailors and soldiers, were insufficient to perform all the manual labour required to build and maintain the settlement. The local Khoi people were unwilling…
Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise
… by Drum photographer © Baileys African History Archive Labour Issues Working Life Factories, Townships and Popular … in the city, The struggle for a place in…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1970 - 1978 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Youth Movement of South Africa are: l. Risalatuna 2. lTP manual 3. Halqah manual 4. A manual of da'wah, 1980 5. Message of the … winter warmth * operation…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
… the mindless timetable of imprisonment, filling hours with manual labour which mercifully distracted them from dwelling on …
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… 1659-1799 With the Colonial administrations facing a labour shortage due to Khoi reluctance to work for them, they … of the Khoi and tying them to prolonged…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… for the new government was to define a single land and labour dispensation for South Africa. This challenge was … that the mines and urban employers were to…
BiographyAdelaine Florence Hain
… 2009 she and Walter received a special award from Putney Labour Party for their activism when they moved to Peter’s …
BiographyGovin Reddy
… to lift themselves out of relative poverty or indentured labour, the older children were expected to participate in …
PlacePilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg
… work at Pilrig demonstrates the use of local materials and manual finishes, something that was in accordance with …
From Segregation to Apartheid
… in South Africa, would threaten the migrant labour system upon which White profitability depended. This … Thus, apartheid was very much about maintaining…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… the Khoikhoi or San and frequently male for domestic labour, according to records dating back to 1777 [ii] . … century caused white women immigrants to…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… resolved that eight hours should constitute a legal day's labour as of 01 May 1886. The Federation also recommended to … Trades Council. The next occasion…
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… the Sotho and take over the territory to turn it into a labour reserve. The Boers moved into northern Basutoland in …
BiographyEla Gandhi
… with different people on a political level”. At this time labour unions for African people were banned. They got around …
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… Contents Nelspruit the Segregated city Homelands as Labour reserves Kanyamazane Introduction Until the demise of … and Africans were only allowed into towns…
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… 1657 with various incentives, they were not provided with labour. The Transatlantic slave trade, an artist's depiction … Unknown. The Dutch initially did…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… had been proletarianised and were reduced to the status of labour. This labour was kept subservient through legislation and force, or … as a means of…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… and a Dog Tax, and were subjected to a system of forced labour called isibalo , which caused widespread hardship and … the South African War there was a…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… had profound consequences for the development of socialist labour politics in South Africa. Before the war, the Labour Party under Colonel Cresswell was the…
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… During the gold-mining revolution, patterns of land and labour were established and continued into the 20th century. … by exploring Britain, diamond mining…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… the other hand, had close ties with the white Democratic Labour Party and the Cape Federation of Labour Unions, a fact … obtainable, the white settlers began…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… degree. They were proletarianised and used to satisfy the labour demands of the mining and agricultural industries. … few years, the state set precedents in…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… became a leading item on the agenda of the South African labour movement. It developed as a response to pressure from … formally adopt the 1955 Freedom…
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… Seminary, he wrote an article on the theology of migrant labour for a magazine called the South African Outlook. At … Tutu spoke out persuasively against…
BiographyMohandas Karamchand Gandhi
… and sentenced to two months' imprisonment, this time hard labour. The struggle continued. In February 1909 he was … arrested a third time and sentenced to…
America, Spanish conquest
… society, every person had to work without pay, because labour was seen as a form of tax. Shortly before the … the Incas to work for them for low wages. They…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… capital. In addition a racially hierarchical division of labour had developed in the mining sector, whereby the … performed by Whites, while unskilled and…