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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…
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 ……
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…
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…
PlaceTunisia
… Arab World in the Economist Intelligence Unit's Democracy Index. Arabic is the official language, and most natives … of an overreliance on oil revenues,…
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…
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…
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… their charges were later withdrawn after the Department of Labour declared the strike legal.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,…
Albert Luthuli`s foreword to pamphlet published by the South African Congress of Democrats, 8 August 1960
… are doing this at great cost to themselves. This is an index of how they value right as against "might is right". …
PlaceTankwa Karoo National Park
… rise in NDVI (The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)- is a measure of the amount and vigor of …
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…
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…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… apartheid by law could not perform any skilled labor (The Labour Department of South Africa). Sue Gordon, a history … important piece of apartheid…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… for the Natal Colony to introduce Indians as indentured labour, with labourers having the option to return to India … effect to Law No. 12 of 1872. 1874 At a…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
… On 8 April 1953 Kenyatta was sentenced to seven-years hard labour for "managing the Mau Mau terrorist organization". He …
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… carry Passes since 1709. Farmers at the Cape ran short of labour during the first British occupation of the southern … (VOC) supplied fresh food to passing…
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… views of various stakeholders. 22 March, The Land Reform (Labour Tenants) Act 2 (LTA) is passed. The Act aims to provide “for security of tenure of labour…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.3 and No.4 1988
… on an interview by Mmantho Nkotsoe CUMULATIVE INDEX: Compiled by Leslie Kahn. GRAPHICS and ART: Lionel …
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… were in various forms of sharecropping accords and labour tenancy contracts they were not eager to forego. For … The reason was that agricultural enterprise…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… Black people needed employment and white people needed labour in order to increase productivity and boost the … cities in search of jobs. It also caused an…
Participants in CODESA (1,2, Working Groups and Administration)
… [SACP, CODESA 1 and 2] Reverend H.J (Allan) Hendrickse [Labour Party of South Africa, CODESA 1 and 2] MR Peter Hendrickse [Labour Party, Daily Management…