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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…
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…
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…
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,…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… and adequately to concerns that had led to intermittent labour and civic unrest that erupted in the aftermath of … escalated, becoming more frequent and…
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…
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,…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
… a national congress of the Jewish community. It is an index of the changes we have achieved during the first few … indelibly inscribed in the history of the…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… it sat with an embarrassing use of their consulate. The Labour opposition in the British Parliament watched Margaret … ANC and Revolutionary Alliance. All…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… in kind, with a share of what they produced. Others – labour tenants – farmed their portion of a white-owned farm and paid rent in the form of a specified…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… of white by coloured, and" - here comes the rub - "KAFFIR LABOUR ON THE FARMS WILL BECOME UNPAYABLY EXPENSIVE." … means the land for the landlords, CHEAP AND…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… last President of the OFS dies in Bloemfontein. 1917 Labour organiser, Henry Selby Msimang, leads a strike of … The ICU was originally established as a Cape…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… it occupies an important place in the history of Black labour. Not only was it the first black trade union movement, … was the introduction of a Wage Board,…
ArticleThe Constitution
… their informed consent. Slavery, servitude and forced labour No one may be subjected to slavery, servitude or forced labour... read on …
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… Officer also played the role of the Sanitary Inspector. Labour: shockingly, the Commission emphasised only two cases … Another group of Colonists demanded…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… The cry for Unity was always a strong card in the S.A. Labour movement, and was used by every Labour politician and demagogue. But it had grown stale. Here ……
Writing the 1973 Durban Strikes: From ‘black worker unrest’ to the ‘birth of independent trade unions’ by Debby Bonnin
… signifier for many things - the ‘start’ of the independent labour movement, the beginning of a period of labour reform, the impetuses for the resistance that…