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… Republic" as the immediate aim for which the workers and peasants of South Africa should fight. This slogan, which … toiling population, is the banner around which the workers and peasants should unite for a joint struggle for a better … from farmers for money, for a share in their crops or as worker tenants, working on the fields of the farms for the …

… This article was written by Peter LaNasa and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project … Mashinini, who used her bold personality to stand up to worker exploitation. An African woman from Johannesburg, she …

… ANC cooperated with other organisations such as the APO and the NIC to fight increasing segregation imposed by the … case in point was the Non European Convention in Kimberley and the All Africa Convention (AAC) in Bloemfontein. Far from … or the ANC. 30 November, An issue of the South African Worker carries an article by Moses Kotane in the form of a …

… 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 years it had become a regular calling point … the availability of grazing. Following the discovery of gold in 1866 in the Tuli region of present-day Botswana the …

… On 7 October 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, in the United States of America and Canada resolved that eight hours should constitute a … workers. His visit inspired a mood of international worker solidarity and culminated in a mass May Day procession …

… exhibition on the Durban strikes is being refocused and upgraded to reflect on the resistance of African workers … ultra low pay, brutal regime in compounds, rule by chiefs and Bantustans, police regimes and blacklisting reference … there are pictures of a number of strikers who were later worker leaders; a step towards building their biographies. …

… the first attempted march on Johannesburg on 4 August, and the partial stay-at-home which kept at least 60 per cent … on to the defensive. There were large-scale arrests, and the committee members never spent two days at the same … they hated and feared as pay-day predators. The migrant worker, furthermore, would tend to be amongst the first to …

… "The policy of the Communist International on national and colonial questions must be chiefly to bring about a union of the proletarian and working masses of all nations and countries for a joint … how can the cheap labourers cooperate with the better paid worker who habitually becomes their masters' accomplice in …

… reaction of this Bill. Its character is oppressive and fascistic to the core. The Act of Union in 1910 wrote the colour bar into the statute books of South Africa and took away the political rights of the Non-Europeans … in effect, this is what the new Bill means for the African worker: to place him into organisations which are merely …

… in factories, the evil of homework was even worse. The worker who is compelled to turn his home into a workshop … This poor man's "castle" presents a picture of squalor and misery-little sticks of furniture, a couple of children and poverty everywhere. The place is too hot in summer and …

… eighteenth dynasty, he became pharaoh at the age of nine and his rule lasted for approximately ten years. Worshipped … that were built in his honour in as far away as Kawa and Faras in Nubia. Although an inscription signalled that … 1922, a team of archaeologists announced that numerous gold treasures were found in Tutankhamun's tomb, which could …

… the sugar-cane fields of KwaZulu Natal's famous 'Green & Gold' and is flanked to the East by golden Beaches and the warm waters of the Indian Ocean . The waters off …

… HISTORY of the South African Trotskyists during the 1930s and into the next decade was never made available or … on South Africa (or should have known) that investment in gold mining had played a crucial role in opening up the … because it gave no attention to the white peasant or white worker, and, secondly, because the WPSA, in calling for …

… about, what its difficulties were from the very beginning and why it is inevitably ran into the sand, is provided by a … 18,1948). The TARC was an ad hoc Committee. The Anti-CAD and the Local Committee of the NEUM, opposed in principle to … YOU should ask yourself. YOU volunteered? Has your fellow-worker volunteered? Your neighbour? Your brother? Your …

… Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his … strategy of non-collaboration with the structures and instruments of oppression and exploitation. This … community of Woodstock, Cape Town. His father, a factory worker, was active in the African Political Organisation …

… Congress , hereinafter referred to as the P.A.C. 2. AIMS AND OBJECTS: (a) To unite and rally the African people into … official colours of the P.A.C. shall be green, black and gold. The P.A.C. flag shall be green field with a black map of Africa and a gold star in the north-west of Africa. Green shall represent …

… Mosisili, Honourable Members of the Lesotho Parliament and all branches of government, Your Excellencies, Ministers, … Dam is today to many South Africans to whom its "white gold" is destined. Although our countries are not far from … would inspire others after him to harness the "pure white gold" which would journey to near and far places to satisfy …

… 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 Witwatersrand in 1886 led to a general boom in … and hotels were also opened in the 1870s. Discovery of gold During the 1880s, trade in Bloemfontein declined due to …

… Thus they thought of immediately breaking the student-worker alliance. They immediately called on workers to carry knobkieries and swords to marry their own children who are protesting for … slaughter us your children as he has done already. Vorster and his gangsters have already claimed that last week's …

… mid-1970s as a necessary tool to help social scientists and others to keep track of what was happening inside the country and in the wider region of Southern Africa, the collection grew daily as Saldru staff, student interns and visiting scholars helped to mark and clip a number …

… be a tribute to the many artists who have died too soon and too young. Empraim gatane, Cyprian Shilakoe, Julian … fragments of the visual cul t ure found on the Reef, where gold was discovered and mined and around which a metropolis … Goldberg. E ntitl e d Hos t el Monument for the Migrant Worker 1978. Illustration 20: the image of Samson was painted …

… but his death was kept a secret by his chief councillors and some of his queens who were with him at Emanxiweni. A cart was brought at nightfall and the King's body was placed in it and taken to … slain. On 9th June 2016, the Chronicle reported that a gold coated spear belonging to King Lobengula, a black fly …

… Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa's Black population and can be divided into four distinct groups; the Northern … up a large percentage of the workers in South Africa's gold mines. The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s marked more …

… The ANC in the 1920s was largely weakened and suffered from both organisation incapacity and financial … , with “black for the people, green for the land and gold for the riches” (Benson, 1985: 46).   The Minimum Wages … in Transkei. In Johannesburg Sisulu obtains work at a gold mine. General Barry Hertzog campaigns for votes to the …

… Explore some of the key moments and events that have helped shape the course of South African … H. Andrews (Bill), a pioneer of the trade union movement and first General Secretary of the Communist Party of South … in Johannesburg. Its official newspaper is entitled “The Worker”. 1910 Sidney Percival Bunting enters politics by …

… Moshoeshoe I. 1878 Sekhukhuni at war with the Transvaal and British colonial administrations. 1879 The battle of Isandlwana between the Zulu and the British. c1880 Makgatho enrols at the Wesleyan … post at the Kilnerton Institute in Pretoria. 1886 -1895 Gold is discovered in Johannesburg. Deep level mining is …

… 1825 Paul Kruger is born to Casper Jan Hendrik Kruger and Elsie Francina Steyn 1835 Paul Kruger's father situated … Mzilikazi. 1838 Paul Kruger's parents cross the Vaal river and establish the first Transvaal town, Potchefstroom. 1842 … with the British. 1886 Proclaimation of the first gold fields in the Witwatersrand. Soon there is an increase …

… Presidential Address at 11.20 a.m., which occupied an hour and thirty minutes, and was listened to with great interest … which again was the result of race pride and greed for gold. This was carried on under the cloak of Empire and with … every vestige of principle (cheers) ­ men whose object was gold and whose god was Mammon. If they wished to see to what …

… groups, the Coloureds also fell victim to segregation and repressive legislations enacted by Colonial and successive governments since shortly after the founding of the Cape of Good Hope, Natal and the Boer Republics. The National Party (NP) , after its … Lewis. G. (1987), Between the Wire and the Wall , Cape Town & Johannesburg: David Phillip …

… Doornfontein is a Suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, and is located just to the East of the City Centre. The Area … part of a Farm owned by Frederick Jacobus Bezuidenhout, and was proclaimed a public diggings after the Discovery of Gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886. In the late 1880's, Thomas …