SAHO global search
2,650 records
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… industrialization and increasing demands for cheap migrant labour”¦” (Giliomee: 2007) June, A Non-European Convention is … click here . April, The National…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline 1850-1889
… passes Law 14 of 1859 allowing the Government to import labour from India. 1860 16 November, The first batch of …
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… not only does he regard the white workers, the white labour aristocrats and the mining magnates is a homogeneous … as wage earners. The depend-ice of the…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… Industries initially depended on White and Coloured labour, but later, during the 1930s and 1940s, Africans were … political mobilisation was closely linked…
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… Escombe was of the opinion that the planters should import labour at their own expense. However, the planters rejected … of 15 000 Indian labourers for Natal…
Tools and weapons from iron and copper
… Division of labour: gender-based activity: men Work within the African …
ArticleIndian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation
… a result of this, the mining boom and the need for cheap labour in urban areas, black men were attracted to the mining industry. By linking the supply and…
Pedi
… status symbol, and used as bohadi or bridewealth payments. Labour division shifted significantly after the introduction … plough, and maize (mielies), and…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… power of those now contemptuously dubbed 'kitchenboys' by labour Minister Sampson, or the 'Jim Fishes' for whom the chairman of the Labour Party pleaded his…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… People shall not be robbed of their cattle, and forced labour and farm prisons shall be abolished. All Shall be … shall have the same rights as all others…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… were very low. Efforts by both management and the Bantu Labour officer for Durban to convince he workers to elect a … in parliament, which was reopening. The…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… the ‘prize negro’ system of indenture ensured that slave labour continued unabated. To this end the ‘prize negro’ … and the second to ensure that abolition…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… political leaders in the Cape. SANC leaders “spoke out on labour issues, stimulated by growing racial discrimination … women to participate in politics” …
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… of the world, with one of the highest rates of public and labour protests in the world. The rate of protests has been … and basic services. The country has…
Afrikaner
… In order to maintain these farms, slaves were imported for manual labour from the East. According to records, by 1170 there …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… Africa under Dutch settlement, there was a shortage of labour, especially on the wheat and wine farms. But the VOC … slaves. They thus imported slaves as the…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… Act No 67 of 1952 A further measure by government to curb labour mobility was facilitated by the implementation of the … 23 of the Identification Act, Act No…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… the Mineral Revolution took place in South Africa, cheap labour became widely used (which was advocated by Cecil John Rhodes), which the dominating notion…
ArticleShip list of Indian Indentured Labourers
… and children who were recruited as part the Indentured Labour System as a source of cheap labour for the white-controlled Natal colonial agricultural …
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… of tougher Pass laws: Africans deemed surplus to the labour needs of White households, commerce and industry, or … no bones about wanting a large pool of…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… in the closure of marginal mines, and justified the cheap labour system on the basis that the miners could bear the … as best they could to mount a challenge…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… National Congress, Communist Party of South Africa and labour organisations emerged in opposition to the white … purpose in exposing and challenging the…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… Australia and North America. An availability of unskilled labour, which he described as being "virile and excellent … replaced on the mines by the…
ArticleCapitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940
… worked, wages, unfair competition and outlawing child labour. 16 million workers were covered by these codes and child labour was outlawed. Workers went on…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… own crops. The able-bodied who could work, could exchange labour for food or buy mealie meal at a cheaper price. The … for Native Affairs permits the…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… Black men accompanied the Boer Commandos and, as a rule, labour conscripted by the Boers received no pay. On the … had disastrous consequences as it…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… in anti-privatisation campaigns, challenging existing labour laws, and campaigns against unemployment. Most … of South Africa(ICU) Inqubela Phambili Trade…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Glossary
… I through the Great Depression" . United States Bureau of Labour Statistics . [5] Ibid., [6] Carol Berkin; et al. …
CAPS Grade 5: Intermediate Phase History - Term 2
… Tools and weapons made from iron and copper § Division of labour: gender-based activity: men. § Metal working (iron, … smithery). · Pottery · …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… in the 1953 South African General Election. The Black Labour Relations Regulation Act (Black Labour and Settlement of Disputes Act) No 48 is passed. A … for…