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Students and action in society
… Papers presented at the 9th NUSAS National Seminar held at Howick, April 24-28 in 1971. … and Student as rebel. Included are recommendations for the NUSAS…
ArchiveStudents and action in society
… Papers presented at the 9th NUSAS National Seminar held at Howick, April 24-28 in 1971. … and Student as rebel. Included are recommendations for the NUSAS…
ArticleRand Rebellion 1922
… the ratio of black workers to white, for although the wages for whites had risen 60 per cent since World War I, wages for blacks had increased only 9 per…
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
… one door and re-engage them at another door to force down wages of both Non-Europeans and Europeans. This policy is definitely aggravating the Poor White…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… companies and getting them to agree to common policies on wages, finding workers and how to deal with the government. … Mine. Image source Skilled miners in…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… two years but makes some concessions based on the Feetham Commission report, providing slight security for the richer … Representation during World War II,…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… expressed reservations about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process from the outset. In his submission to the Commission, the President of the…
BiographyChris Hani
… applied for amnesty through the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings. Despite claims that they were …
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… in industrial actions, the conflict primarily concerns wages – here with the mineworkers demanding an increase in their wages, often twice what they are…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… tuberculosis, malnutrition, try to add to their meagre wages in a variety of legal and illegal ways, the Government thinks it necessary to appoint commission…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1910-1919
… enough land for everyone. Africans were forced to work for wages on white farms or in the mines or factories. 1914 … Government to assent to the Land Act…
The Sweet Workers’ Union
… women agreed that the Africans should receive their full wages as strike pay, although a shortage of funds meant that … white female workers received only…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… granted amnesty in 1999 by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission , and his rank of Rear Admiral restored. …
Document 134 - The Impending Strike of African Miners: A statement by the African Mineworkers’ Union, 7 August 1946
… But we cannot refrain from pointing out that while the wages of almost every other group of workers in the country … of our members by the appointment of the…
Document 46 - D. Tloome, “The Origin and Development of Non-European Trade Unions”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 27 February 1953, Viewpoints and Perspectives. L 1,21 February 1953
… Members of Inter-Racial Unions The Industrial Legislation Commission's investigations disclosed that there were twelve … of movement etc, rather than…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… which had led to the Fort Hare SRC to disaffiliate from NUSAS in 1952. For some students at the University of Natal … Medical School (UNMS) their involvement…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… were a number of workers’ strikes during this period. Poor wages, bad working conditions and the contract system had … included: free choice in location of…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… later in 1992, Boesak was appointed to the New Independent Commission on International Co-operation. In 1994, Boesak …
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
… of inquiry. He served for seven years as chairman of the Commission on the Remuneration of Political Office-bearers. …
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… of its segregationist policies as a member of the Wilcox commission of enquiry into the socio-economic condition of …
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… led the walk-out from the National Union of SA Students (Nusas) conference at Rhodes University in July 1967. He led a … and debating feverishly with Rick…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… community for full democratic rights. May, The Broome Commission is established to inquire into penetration of … Dadoo puts forward. His proposals call for…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… phenomenon and have nothing to do with poverty and low wages. He further states that his first duty is to thank the … speech to the National Union of South…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… according to Xolela Mangcu. University, and contact with NUSAS Steve completed his schooling with very good grades, … a member of the National Union of South…
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
… by the Natal Government and that they understood that the wages for the first year was to be 10 shillings, 11 shillings … governing the immigrants,…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… of the Rand Club as opposed to the dispossession, low wages and poor living conditions entrenched by the mining … ’s Apartheid South Africa; pass laws,…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… wanted African farm labourers as to work for cash wages as quickly as possible, rather than squatting or share … was encouraged by the recommendation of the…
ArticleThe South African Strategic Defence Procurement Package known as “The Arms Deal”
… the arms contracts. She presents a dossier and demands a commission of inquiry. She later gave the dossier to the … the “Arms Deal” until recently. The Arms…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… definition is also used by the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC). Xenophobia is also a manifestation of … away from local south Africans and…
Document 15 - ‘A document to create a climate of understanding’; Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
… We should battle together with all the other centres in NUSAS by protesting alongside the students at the University … at no stage will those students be…