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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…
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 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…
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…
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 ……
EventTrade union federation, COSATU, celebrates its 26th anniversary
… African Trade Unions (COSATU), a federation of various labour unions, was established on 2 December 1985 in Durban. It is among the fastest growing labour…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… families and locked into a chain of guarded, high-walled labour camps. These are not the casualty figures for a major … No monument has yet been built to…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… from 'Keeping the Red Flag Flying, An Address th the S.A. Labour Party', pamphlet published by the War on War League (SA) in March 1915. Document 2: …
EventJ.C. Smuts calls general election
… Nationalist Party (NP), which won sixty-three seats, and Labour Party winning eighteen seats, with the SAP securing … seats. After the election, the National…
Article1994 Cabinet
… Dullah Omar Chris Fismer ; from March 1996 Sheila Camerer Labour Tito Mboweni Land Affairs; from July 1996 merged with …
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… with sections of the largely unorganised Durban African labour force. Her contact with activist academic Rick Turner …
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… enemies for the liberation of the whole people, of all who labour, from the yoke of government, officials and from the … were first incorporated into the…
“I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson
… worker resistance, with implications for how we understand labour market volatility, and the place of wage labour in South Africa’s policy debates and…
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa appoints Justice Raymond Zondo as Chief Justice
… Justice Zondo was first appointed as a judge of the Labour Court in 1997 and was Judge President of the Labour and Labour Appeals courts between 2000 and…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… countries grew rich from the gold, silver, land and labour they took from people living in other continents … society, every person had to work without pay,…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… and by the introduction of formal apartheid in 1948. The labour market experienced phenomenal growth because of an … was a great increase in the number of…
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
… the significance of entwined histories of student and labour movements during the heyday of apartheid colonialism … Africa. By the time of the Durban…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… economy, while extending existing controls over labour tenancy. This meant that a farmer could expel the … tenant family if any one member defaulted on his…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… by the job colour bar becoming official. The 'Civilized Labour Policy' and the Apprenticeship Act entrenches … a section of White workers and the chamber of…
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… the dangerous implications in the resolutions on in farm labour which will be moved at a special congress of the … with agricultural unions to control…
1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
… like the 1979 Wiehahn recommendations amending the 1956 Labour Relations Act- recognising Black trade unions under … A. 2017. ‘‘We do not think that the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… government help to finance the factories How the changing labour needs of the manufacturing industry produced a new … to develop South African, and not…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… under its domination and capital, ever seeking cheaper labour, new markets and spheres of investment, has migrated … the native from developing freely into…
Document 65 - Z. Sanders (Zena Susser), “Aspects of the Rural Problem in South Africa”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 1 December 1952, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 1, 21 February 1953 [....]
… of the country - on the one hand, the system of migratory labour demands such conditions, and on the other the rapid … dispossessed they are yet prevented…
Liberation organisations
… to their own organisation.' Trade Unions A Trade Union or Labour Union is an organisation of workers. Trade union … and in 1973 and 1974 there was a…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
… a reformatory for white girls drawn mainly from the white manual working class. Whereas the reformatory was created for … where they were to be trained and…