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ArchiveHousing Issues in Natal: Paper presented at National Conference 1980
… Act, Chatsworth Housing Action Committee, Abolition of Labour Tenancy and Mass Removals, migrant labour. …
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
… mind, are the close preserves of the while aristocracy of Labour. Natives are debarred or discouraged from entering … in the Cape are affiliated to the Cape…
ABBREVIATIONS USED
… - International Defence and Aid Fund ILO - International Labour Organization IMF - International Metalworkers … (SACTU) NIC - Natal Indian Congress NL (SD)…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… British, with enough African people to satisfy all their labour requirements. But this didn't last for long. Although … became difficult for Boer farmers to…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos
… Introduction Chapter 1 - Change to Wage Labour Chapter 2 - The Early Years Chapter 3 - Where Working … 6 - New Workers,New Unions Chapter 7 - Locations for…
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Durban
… regional reports, minutes of previous conference, migrant labour, wages, labour laws, Campaign on African Women, resettlement, tax for …
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… education course included a history of the ANC and the labour movement. Alongside this role, he was also active in …
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… the South African Black Alliance comprising the [Coloured] Labour Party (LP), [Indian] Reform Party and the KwaNgwane … [online]. Available at https:/…
EventKing George V visits the SANLC
… The South African Native Labour Contingent were recruited and employed to assist Britain in the First World War with labour duties. Black South African men…
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
… people to assist the British in World War 1 by providing labour. There were to be 10 000 people to serve in the South African Native Labour Contingent sent…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… from these concentration camps were used as slave labour to build railways, docks and buildings throughout the … of the buildings in Namibia today were built…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… and 18 September with members of the South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC) on board. It was established that … to penetrate the most remote areas…
Establishment of the Cape and its impact on Khoikhoi and Dutch
… their cattle on the farmers’ land in return for providing labour. Although the Khoikhoi were not enslaved by the VOC as … woman and children who were in turn…
Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
… has already been responsible for the exploitation of cheap labour. Still you hear M.P.'s agitating for the resuscitation of 'isibalo,' or forced labour, in…
ArchiveIsisebenzi December 1972 (English Translation)
… new company bought all employment opportunities and sold a labour to shipping companies for a cheaper wage. What was … workers were supposed to be recruited…
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
… of the African working class is symbiotic with migrant labour, first in the mines, with regional migration, followed … the clearest articulation of rural…
Document 23 - Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
… of mobilisation against privatisation in support of labour's demands as presented to the government. Workers who … be restructured to ensure adequate…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… political movements while in London. He joined the British Labour Party and actively participated in its London Central … of twenty-five pounds in addition…
Say It out Loud - The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912
… mine-owner it is primarily a question of securing cheap labour. To obtain big dividends, cost of production must be reduced, and that can be best affected by…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - 'Defendre of the Hottentots'
… ideas of "liberty and equality,” liberty of speech, "free” labour, etc., with which the middle-classes in England had … by Dutch farmers and giving instances…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… image also carried political connotations and, during the labour struggles of the early twentieth century, it was … creating a demand for a means of…
May Day
… role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party and other labour movements in the struggle against Apartheid. May Day , as we know it refers to various…
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
… role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party and other labour movements in the struggle against apartheid. May Day, … we know it, refers to various…
Trade Unions in South Africa by Ari Sitas and Bianca Tame
… well into the post-Apartheid period. Key words: migratory labour system; labour process; cultural formations; tripartite alliance …
PlaceWorkers’ Museum, Johannesburg
… tragic practice. The Museum is Housed in an Old Migrant Labour Hostel Compound and documents the History of South … Building reveal the Workers’ hardships…
Class Struggle
… owned the factories, and the working class who sell their labour to the factory owners. The working class is exploited … the only way they can generate money…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… Dawood Seedat was sentenced to three months with hard labour. When he was released pamphlets were circulated widely … South Africa.’ Dimes was also a member…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… Government of India to prohibit recruitment of indentured labour and protesting against South African policy as unwise, … of India and Gokhale for ending…
EventSolly Sachs leaves South Africa
… Socialist and labour activist Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs left South Africa … the same month. He was sentenced to six months' forced labour, suspended for two…
Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
… book presents a sociological study of the black migrant labour force on the mine: in the words of the author, his … used to hit back at white workers…