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Why protect worker’s rights?
… employer has the right to form and join an employers' organisation; and to participate in the activities and programmes of an employers' organisation. Every…
The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond
… exploited the agitation by proposing the formation of an organisation to oppose the Bill as well as to represent … HP du Preez were tasked with drawing up a…
The strangulation of activity
… banned in terms of Proclamation R218. The COD was a white organisation, part of the Congress group, which consisted of … In May 1963 Umkhonto weSizwe was…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
Harry Schwarz (born Heinz Schwarz) was born in Cologne, Germany (Weimar Republic) on 13 May 1924. Growing up in a Jewish family, Schwarz witnessed the rise of…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… of Johannesburg, Ambrose Reeves. Collins, who headed the organisation called Christian Action, assured Reeves that he … revolved around Operation Mayibuye ,…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… to combat the patriarchal society. This non-governmental organisation’s goal is to ‘ strive towards a society in which … (CAPAB) (Gertrude 2013). CAPAB was a…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… the Indian Congress and the Coloured African People's Organisation. In 1946 the CPSA and the African Mine Workers … Dadoo, Hilda (Watts) Bernstein and Brian…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… Frank worked actively to support the ANC as the leading organisation within in the Congress Alliance, working with …
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
… higher education students of a national political student organisation. However, there were ongoing skirmishes between … organisations. Instead, in a…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… the forerunner of the South African Coloured Peoples Organisation. The Bantu/Native Building Workers Act, Act No 27 of 1951 is passed. The President of…
Schlebusch Commission
… the Schlebusch Commission, to investigate the objects, organisation, financing and activities of NUSAS, the …
Intersex South Africa (ISSA)
Intersex South Africa (ISSA) is an organization founded in 2010 by late activist Sally Gross. According to ISSA’s manifesto, the goals of their mission include…
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… in order to win their demands they had to organise. The organisation of African mine workers was and remains one of … many languages, guarded and spied upon…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… the rise of African nationalism was the African People’s Organisation (APO). At first the APO did not concern itself … organization. The larger aim was to…
Chapter 5 -The Character, Role and Significance of SASO
… of internal discipline.... It was primarily a students' organisation" (1978: 149, 193). It was "led by intellectual, … of politics, it is best understood as…
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… described as 'coloured' from the common voters’ role. The organisation grew into an avenue for liberal women to oppose … the Women’s Defence of the…
ArticleThe Order of Luthuli
… justice and peace, and conflict resolution. Organisation The order can be awarded in three categories: …
ArticleThe Order of Ikhamanga
… of arts, culture, literature, music, journalism and sport. Organisation This Order can be awarded in three Categories: …
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… the ANC was being recognised as the principal organisation representing the interests of the majority of … liberation groupings, especially the Azanian…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… of women to ensure his re-election as president of the organisation. 1934 Sarah Carneson joins the SACP. She teaches … Convention with Charlotte Maxeke as…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… political work and consequently, he began attending the organisation’s meetings too. In 1959, he joined the ANC and … address to the conference, Zuma…
Imvaba Arts Association
… Motherwell townships of Port Elizabeth. It was a community organisation with the aim of promoting and assisting artists …
ArticleBlack Women’s Federation
… Africa to form a united front. At the conference where the organisation was launched, the women adopted a constitution …
Article1973 Durban Strikes Conference , 26-28 January 2023 - Celebrating 50 Years
January 8, 2023, will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Durban Strikes and the emergence of a new wave of independent non-racial trade unions. This was…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… out, the ANC, Indian National Congress, Coloured People’s Organisation and Congress of Democrats (COD), collectively … extension of the pass laws to women- a…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… National Congress (ANC) could not formally attend as the organisation as it was prevented by the apartheid government … more African countries became…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… them had one purpose, the fight for liberation. Yet each organisation operated in isolation from the rest. In other … (ANC). The ANC was hoping to be the…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… (ANC) adopts the Programme of Action which sees the organisation abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics … branch of the virtually non-existent…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… were restricted by bans. Due to the banning of their organisation the PAC had to change their method of … of this camp was called Shangai where members of…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… re-naming of the Boycott Movement. The AAM is an umbrella organisation that took a strong moral stand against apartheid … illegally on the instruction of the…