SAHO global search
2,813 records
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… the bakery for his role in organising a strike for higher wages. In the next decade he worked in various companies and …
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
… from the international body. In response, FINA sent a Commission to investigate South African swimming in 1972. …
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
… to join in proceedings to set aside the Judicial Service Commission’s (JSC) decision not to hold a formal hearing on …
BiographyEmil Sachs
… the SATLC, gave evidence before the Industrial Legislation Commission in 1935. The trade union movement was pressing for …
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
… highlights in his career. In 1933 he received his second commission to do seven murals for South Africa House in …
BiographyEs’kia Mphahlele
… African Teachers Associaion (TATA). The 1949 Eislen Commission on Native Education, inspired by Dr. H.F. Verwoerd …
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
… refused to participate in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). He objected to it in principle — that you …
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… was put together by a specially appointed Human Rights Commission. In order to make this document applicable to all it was intended that this commission be…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… sustain themselves through agriculture made them rely on wages earned in white industrial areas or on white farms for … labour as abundant labour would…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… to act. In addition to the disappointingly low wages she earned, the hospital administration imposed strict … as the sole bread winner; a brave decision…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… national board (the Wage Board) to recommend minimum wages and conditions of unorganised or unregistered groups of workers in all industries. The Act aimed…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… a moratorium on removals, and established the Beaumont Commission to identify additional land for the reserves. … him the services of himself, his wife and…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… ANC, were offered scholarships by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) to study in West Germany. … with the National Union of South…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… Africa [xii] . In 1905, the South African Native Affairs Commission urged that African women domestics be promoted … of social life, reasonable working hours…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… around the government’s poor service delivery, poor wages and poor working conditions at workplaces have been … land and other public infrastructure, as well…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… confined them to segregated ghettoes, menial jobs and low wages. Coloured and Indians communities were likewise … were barred from skilled jobs and received…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… a meeting of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) in Durban, is appointed a member by the NUSAS Council and is also asked to become the…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… federation, the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), and formed their own student organisation, drawing … State, which had initially viewed SASO…
BiographySolomon Kalushi Mahlangu
… to uphold human rights. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Solomon Mahlangu’s mother, Martha Mahlangu, … what she expected of the TRC, she said that it…
BiographyDaniël Francois Malherbe
… and Art) came into being, he served on its language commission as well as founded and edited its official …
BiographySir George Grey
… at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and granted a commission in the 83rd Foot in 1829. He left the army in …
BiographyGeorge Hallett
… Spitz Gallery | London, 2005 The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Exhibition | Herbert Art Gallery and Museum …
BiographyOmar Badsha
… the head of the Photography Unit of the Second Carnegie Commission on Poverty and Development, which led to the …
BiographyRuth First
… in Maputo, Mozambique. During the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings, after 1995, it was determined …
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
… at the Victoria Falls. In 1977 he served on a two-person commission of the Medical Association of South Africa to …
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… to the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) in 1945, partly on the notion that it was necessary … apartheid government. Recognising that…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… same work as men but were paid much less. The miniscule wages that women were paid hardly covered their living … leader, was also highly motivated by the…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and … black families lived below the bread line…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… at the subject. His mother talked about her exploitative wages. Her fellow workers visited her, and talked about trade …
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… African workers. Urban African workers who demanded higher wages and better working conditions were able to form trade … wounded. The situation prompted the…