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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 …
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…
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…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… and fencing. [xxi] Opportunities for contracting out their labour to passing ships arose with the formation of a British … indigenous Kru migrated down to…
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…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… legal atrocities taking place in South Africa. An eminent Labour barrister, Gardiner drew attention to the plight of … that Williamson had spread this rumour…
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
… Africa has a long and rich scholarly tradition on the labour struggle and workers’ challenge of gendered racial … illuminating visual, sonic, and…
Document 2 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton
… COSATU PRESS STATEMENT RE: MINISTER OF LABOUR GREEN PAPER ON POLICY PROPOSALS FOR A NEW EMPLOYMENT … welcomes the green paper announced by the Minister of…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… becomes a gentleman." This slave-owning attitude to labour has persisted, and the Industrial Revolution in South … from abolishing it, intensified it. The…
English Settlement in South Africa
… by the Children’s Friend Society to work as indentured labour for local British employees. They were brought to rid … of British workers were brought to the…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… Communist Party (SACP), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Labour Party, the Inyandza National Movement, the Transvaal … Zach De Beer (DP), Pravin Gordhan ,…
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… the peasants for their loyalty during the Revolution. Labour conditions were improved with working hours limited to … of food, fuel, raw materials for…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… to form one trade union called South African Trades and Labour Council (SATLC), popularly known as the Trade and Labour Council. In 1944 SATLC adopted the…
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… a reduction of wages and the preference for cheaper Black Labour. This led to an increase in the employment of Black … the leadership of W. H. Andrews and…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… Proclamation" to regulate the use of Khoi-San and coloured labour to satisfy the labour needs of white farmers. This entails the curtailment … coloured…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… presidents in the 1920s (which included removing labour laws and reducing business taxes and tariffs) provided … to suffer. [12] The previous gains made by…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… against togt (day) workers to the challenges to the cheap labour system to unionization. The material for the earlier … It was argued South African economy…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… deprivation of Africans' right to own land. Land, Labour and Apartheid Several hundred members of South … unions. Organisation of the working class,…
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… a growing number of settlers, the demand for more land and labour increased tensions between colonial authorities and … Kinjigitile Ngwale in 1905. The…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… massive deprivation of Africans’ right to own land. Land, Labour and Apartheid Several hundred members of South … unions. Organisation of the working class,…
ArchiveObituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders by Andries Bezuidenhout (Mail and Guardian), 6 March 2024
… social media this week, ranging from overseas scholars to labour federation Cosatu. While formally retired for some … was involved in setting up…
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… an economic-colour bar in response to the clamours of the Labour Party of the Northern Province. These aristocrats of labour would base all their arguments…
PlaceSahlumbe
… in response to a crisis sparked by the eradication of Labour Tenancy in Weneen. Arrivals to the area began in the … and continued throughout the decade as…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… in the manufacturing industry led to a change in the labour process in the factories — new machines speeded up … semi-skilled worker and new worker…
Document 136 - “Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers’ Organisations in South Africa”, Freedom 5, 4 August 1946
… of our party to other expressions and sections of the labour movement in South Africa, Because of its claim to be a … of the workers of South Africa, the…
Document 47 - “Answer to Government’s Apartheid Unions”, The Citizen. 1 3, 30 April 1956
… Apartheid Unions", The Citizen. 1 3, 30 April 1956 "THE LABOUR MOVEMENT MUST FIGHT ALL ATTEMPTS ON THE PART OF THE … unions, as provided under the I.C. Bill,…