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The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
… Celebrating 50 Years Conference When the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) was formed in Cape Town in 1909 there was much hope for the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Source-based Questions
… divorce’. It is estimated that more than two million men and women became travelling hobos. Many of these were teens who felt they had become a burden on…
ArticleRobert Mcbride timeline
… complexioned middle child in a Coloured family of 4 boys and 1 girl. His mother made obvious her dislike of him because of his darkness, and from the age of…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
… awaits you, lo ng way to walk. It’s no use talking, to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 … they feared, would introduce an era of…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
… peoples colonized the general region between the third and 11th centuries. 1804 Moshoeshoe, a son of Mokhachane, a … They settle in the region of the Butha…
EventThomas Titus Nkobi is born
… to South Africa. In 1941 he went to Adams College in Natal and continued to complete his high School education by … extensively involved in the Alexander Bus…
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… born in Kimberley on 28 October 1908 to Ernest Oppenheimer and Mary Lina Pollock. Oppenheimer completed his primary education in Johannesburg and proceeded…
PlaceKlerksdorp- Matlosana Local Municipality
… by the Ngaka Modiri Molema District , in the North and the Free State Province in the South, JB Marks in the East, and Maquassi Hills , in the west. It is…
PlaceGroot Constantia, Constantia Valley
… architecture, friendly employees, History of slaves and their traditions ! "All of these added to the successful … 1685 he chose 763 Hectares, for its wine…
ArticleA list of South African Shipwrecks
… on 29 July 1977. It was being towed to a wreckers yard and ran aground. It is firmly wedged onto the rocks and used … Canadian-Pacific Railway Company for…
“White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational categories in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny
… 50 Years Conference Paper proposal for the CCAWUSA and Independent Socialists Panel 1973 conference Title: … “White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”: …
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… the birthplace of humans, is close to Pretoria in Gauteng, and is the source of the oldest hominid discovery in the … as South Africa from further north in…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… before matriculating. Phahle became a political activist and joined the ANC Youth League in Sophiatown while a high … Under the leadership of the ANC’s…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… moved around between the areas of Table Bay, Swartland and Saldanha Bay in search of fresh grazing pastures with … on their way to Asia with fresh fruits,…
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… that became the Western Province General Workers’ Union and later the General Workers’ Union. He served on the … of the South African Labour Bulletin from…
DOCUMENT 37. “Black Power--Students Forced to Leave Meeting.” Article in Dome (University of Natal), March 27, 1969
… SOUTH AFRICAN CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS, ON 5 MARCH 1955, AND INCLUDED AS A PREAMBLE TO ITS CONSTITUTION Organize... or … that unorganised workers are unable…
Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the Communist League of America’, 26 April 1932
… copies of the Militant per week which we hope to sell and return you the money. We are particulady anxious to introduce the Miliitant amongst the African…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… Fascism. Fascism is not something found only in Germany and Italy. Hitler's strength has not come only from his guns and tanks and planes. It comes also, and…
Address by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 1 December 2010
… 2010 President of COSATU; General-Secretary of COSATU and other national officer bearers; Presidents and Leaders of Affiliated Unions; Distinguished guests; …
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… with the logical march of a proposition of Euclid. Wars and disputes never arise over clear-cut issues. A confused … Then, as the result of conscious …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1946
… call was made on Mr. Churchill, the late Mr. Roosevelt and Generalissimo Stalin. They were all comparatively young … to the people by turning his attention…
PlaceAlabama, Klerksdorp
… as a successful commerce raider, attacking merchant and naval ships over the course of her two-year career, … the Port of Cherbourg, France. It had an…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… event will take place in South Africa, 18 year old and over, men and women, black and white, will go to the polls to elect a … largest black labor union, the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.4 1991
… Contents and Contributors Contents Volume 9 Number 4 1991, Comment ,A. … Albie Sachs; Contemporary Mural Art: Urban Dislocation and Indifference, Annette…
EventThe recommendations of the Riekert Commission (to investigate the employment conditions of Black workers) are tabled
… regime was trying to find ways of increasing productivity and profitability for South African industry. In addition, … political resistance by the Black…
A Helots’ Bill of Rights
… 1923. Transcribed: by Dominic Tweedie . Every intelligent worker, whether of European or African descent, must … rights for all civilised men’, equality of…
Document 3 - Peace Treaty of Vereeniging
… at every turn. It is remarkable that he, in less than one and half hours, able to reflected on the activities, programmes and achievements of our government…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… The area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, originally known as Transoranje, with its … of diamonds between 1867 and 1871, and the discovery of gold on the…
PlaceBritish Bechuanaland
… the subsequent divisions of Vryburg, Mafikeng . Kuruman and Taung. The first European travellers to visit the region arrived here in 1801, and within a few…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… This article was written by Peter LaNasa and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project … Mashinini, who used her bold…