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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… late 1800s in Natal as a result of very cheap “indentured labour” sourced from India. The first group of Indian workers … the Zulu’s were forcefully stripped…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… all efforts made to involve the private sector, organised labour, the civics and other community organisations to … and development, we will, together with…
ArchiveBuilders of the nation: 1: working the land
… Department of Labour poster. Multicoloured poster. History and photographs of farm labour in South Africa. Artwork of new South African flag. …
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
… a similar title and used its contacts within the British Labour Party to push for this recognition. This happened to coincide with my appointment as the…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… laws that controlled and restricted black movement and labour. The end of the South African War (1899-1902) paved …
General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)
… Cheadle and their colleagues then used loopholes in the labour laws to mobilise and organise workers (who by now were …
ArchiveWorkers! do you know your rights on
… The Department of Labour poster. Multicoloured poster. For information on … leave, hours of work and leave, list of Department of Labour offices and contact…
ArchiveBuilders of the nation: 1 :working the land
… Multicoloured poster. Issued by the Department of Labour. Artwork of new South African flag. Short history of land labour. Photographs and artwork of people…
ArchiveTrade unions face the future
… THE voluntary liquidation of the Trade and Labour Council marks the closing of a chapter In South African labour history. It also marks the beginning of a…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
… from which the family mainly benefited, changed to paid labour for the profit of others in industry. This change was … the most productive workers. In later…
ArchiveThe Western Cape- Coloured and White Preference Area- Some Implications : Paper presented at National Conference 1980
… on 12 March 1980 discussing equal rights, race relations, labour practices, pass laws, migrant labour, industrial development. …