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ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2009 to 2010
… Justice and Constitutional Development Jeff Radebe Labour Membathisi Mdladlana Mining Susan Shabangu Police …
ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2014
… & training Bonginkosi “Blade” Nzimande Mduduzi Manana Labour Mildred Oliphant Patekile Holomisa Science & …
ArticleGeneral Factory Workers Benefit fund (GFWBF)
… Foszia Fisher and Karel Tip and Rick Turner , a leading labour and political activist. During this period it was …
Cedric Nunn
… projects, from workshops for the churches and the labour unions, to being the director of the Market …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… FIFTH POINT - ECONOMIC COLLABORATION AND IMPROVED LABOUR STANDARDS "They desire to bring about the fullest … field with the object of securing for all…
ArticleThe missionaries
… of Eastern Pondoland, Transkei in 1939-1976, promised labour recruiters that he will help with finding migrant … labourers. He was later accused of taking…
ArticleSS Mendi
… that Britain had requested that the South African Native Labour Contingent provide 10 000 men to work behind the front … George V, centre, inspecting the…
ArticleWay of life in ancient Egypt
… surplus generated by a favourable climate and huge forced labour, the Pharoahs financed huge pyramids that eventually … but only the wealthy could afford the…
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… France along the Western front, leading to a shortage of labour at the very moment that the growth of the manufacturing industry led to an increased demand…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… in towns close to their workplace. It discouraged migrant labour and encouraged the idea of planned and carefully … Therefore, the attempt to deliver a…
From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
… restructuring of work in our book Grounding Globalisation: Labour in the age of Insecurity (published with Rob Lambert … critique of the ‘false optimism’ of…
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
… Creation and Control Chapter 5 - How the mines got their Labour Taxation Chapter 6 - How the mines got their Labour and The Land is Diveded Unequally Chapter…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… The need for a controlled labour force: Indentured Labourers There is an indentured labour gallery on the SAHO site, webteam please select an … November 1860…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… Martindale and Newclare). In 1923, the South African Labour Party (SALP) and the South African National Party … conscripted into the army, creating a…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… the CPSA in 1921 was a turning point in the development of labour politics in South Africa. The organised labour movement until the 1920s consisted mainly,…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… races were still virtually restricted to the home, migrant labour had already begun to forge differences between the … tried to bully the women to comply…
ArticleHigh Farce in the House
… demonstrate their rejection) of the Group Areas Act, the Labour Party opposed the application by an Indian person to …
Prominent South Africans Indians
… and we welcome contributions from the public. Politics and Labour Adam, Feroza Asmal, Kader Asmal, Mohamed Asvat, Abu …
EventDivision in the Coloured Representative Council deepens
… Federal Party after its third defeat in three days by the Labour Party, led by Sonny Leon. The Federal Party was … government within the framework of…
ArchiveEddie Webster leaves a legacy of advocacy for social justice that transcends academia by Ethan van Diemen (Daily Maverick), 5 March 2024
… Institute of Industrial Education and the South African Labour Bulletin. In December 1975 Eddie was arrested under … Germany. His co-authored volume,…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… A labour shortage at the gold mines on the Rand resulted in the importation of Chinese labour in 1904. This situation, in part, was the result of … Milner…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… into poverty and pushed into become a souce of cheap labour for the new capatilist state and in particular for the …
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… 1920s, with Afrikaner women workers beginning to enter the labour market it appears that the WEAU was accorded more …
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… and soldiers, were insufficient to perform all the manual labour required to build and maintain the settlement. The local Khoi people were unwilling to…
Dr. Pallo Jordan’s speech at the 20th anniversary of the Bisho massacre, 07 September, 2012
… What’s more we racially gendered poverty! Using any index one might want, poverty in South Africa is a condition … of “bantu homelands” stood at the centre…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Act hit unions hard. Black workers left the Trades & Labour Council to join the Trade Union Council of South … The summit resolved to work towards a new, all…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… were vexed with the question of African land tenure and labour since the 1880s. In 1892 a Commission was appointed to … would force the surplus or excess…
Chapter 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… in Mein Kampf, as Section IX of the pamphlet states: Labour Labour is as indispensable as capital for the country's … taking into account the interest of the…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… between the British and Dutch settlers was the issue of labour. With the end of slavery in 1870, the British had … the indigenous South African population as…
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… make-up of southern Africa was the creation of a migrant labour system from the 1870s onwards. Provisions for the … enterprises in the Colony. The resultant…