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ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… Britain, Diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansion Before South Africa's vast … and they, in turn, placed growing demands for land and…
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
… movement of African migrants in search of work in colonial labour markets was greatly accelerated . As the demand for African land and labour spiralled,…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… workers, mostly women, are seasonal and are employed via labour brokers. According to Human Rights Watch report, as … jobs on farms at risk. According to…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… the new Tricameral Parliament . Nonetheless, his social, labour, and economic reforms were a significant development, …
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… in factories and mines as migrant labourers. The migrant labour system that the Bapedi used to build their empire was …
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… in 1912. She was a shorthand typist in the Trades and Labour Council and worked for the secretary Creswell. Later …
BiographyDulcie Evonne September
… to Arusha, Tanzania , for a seminar of the International Labour Organisation- along with Eleanor Kasrils . Here, …
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… were sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour, suspended for two years. Sisulu was re-elected as ANC …
ArticleParties involved in the history of elections in South Africa
… The South African Labour Party (SALP) The South African Party (SAP) The South … and Simple (KISS) Workers' List Party (WLP) Luso-SA Party Labour Part (LP)…
Industrial and Commercial Workers Union
… came about after the ICU strike in Cape Town when African labour leader, H Selby Msimang convened a general meeting in … Sam Masabalala, who represented the…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… was sentenced to nine months imprisonment with hard labour, suspended for three years. He was also served with a … him in prison. Dennis Healey, a British MP…
Institute for Industrial Education (IIE)
… onwards, the IIE started up the publication, South African Labour Bulletin to report on and analyse labour matters. Sociologist Fozia Fischer headed up the ……
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… century the expanding settlers experienced a shortage in labour and by 1717 slave labour, which was already prevalent in the Cape, was declared as the main…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… the humiliation of pass laws, the hardship of migrant labour, forced removals and the denial of the right to … period three distinct political traditions…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions
… workers was made worse by attempts of organised white labour to expel them form jobs that they had filled during … contractors and tearooms not to employ…
The International Socialist League (ISL)
… was created by a progressive faction of the South African Labour Party (SALP) as a reaction to the party’s support for … clear that pressure from within…
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
… Pioneer Corps During WW1 corps of the British Army had labour companies and infantry regiments had their labour battalion who were tasked with field…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… became involved in the establishment of the South African Labour Bulletin as a vehicle to advance these leadership … The Bulletin became a forum research on…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… from time to time, helping in the gardens and doing other manual (physical) work. However, they did not want to leave … to work on other farms where slaves…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… in TUCSA were members of the South African Trades and Labour Council (SATLC), popularly known as the Trade and Labour Council, which was formed in the 1930s…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… kitchens, mineral mines and all other types of unskilled labour where his low wages are a blessing to employers. (5) … wish the black man to be too far away…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… their charges were later withdrawn after the Department of Labour declared the strike legal. CNETU becomes involved in … The union was asserting itself as a…
15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike - South African Worker, 27 February 1937
… African Worker, 27 February 1937 The traditions of the labour movement in South Africa young as it is are traditions … The Communist Party has written to the…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… of the 1913 Land Act and the increased demand for cheap labour on farms, black squatters faced increased pressure in … of African sharecropping undermined…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… was becoming strong. In 1923 the National Party (NP) and Labour Party (LP) formed a pact to win the general elections … Indian and Coloured counterparts,…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
… “imperial” interests. The third party, the South African Labour Party represented mainly white workers associated with the labour movement. The outcome of…
ArticleHow Lenin and Stalin are remembered today?
… of setting the scene for Stalin's campaigns of forced labour and mass murder. During the revolution, Lenin … thousand of peasant farmers, amongst others,…
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
… The clippings collection built up by the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (Saldru) in the School of … General IR Workers Organizations…
ArchiveAppendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg
… to work at the going wage rate for menial, or heavy, manual labour. The great achievements which have been made are thus …
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… the CPSA’s general secretary, held the ANC portfolio for labour at that time. Modelled on parliamentary lines, when … between miners and mine owners finally…