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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 …
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… an explosion in numbers as mining required a far greater labour force than crop farming. Men migrated from various … that is still fundamentally premised on…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…