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… awareness: at its annual congress during December 1981 NUSAS adopted the theme 'Campus Action for Democracy' for …
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… on board only nine survived the crash. After the crash a Commission, made of representatives from South Africa, … and South Africa agreed to establish an…
Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
… is right, Curtis and Pretorius were working on a plan for NUSAS to initiate a campaign in 1972 to mark the 10th … and later as High Commissioner. NUS`s…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… They lied about living and working conditions, as well as wages, in order to convince Black men to work for the mines. … 1918 Black workers embarked on…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… phenomenon and has nothing to do with poverty and low wages. He further states that his first duty is to thank the … 19 February, The first part of the South…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… 200 of 1993 for that purpose. The Act also established a Commission on Restitution of Land Rights in 1995 under a … one in 1999. Rather than having to go…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… organization of the black working class. A paper to the NUSAS seminar in 1971 sought to set out the theoretical basis … the possibilities for mobilizing…
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
… to these people. They formed the Justice and Peace Commission that was a nucleus of priests against apartheid. …
ArticleProgressive Federal Party (PFP)
… trade union rights for black people and fought for better wages and working conditions. In 1974 six more PP members won …
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… strike, which had its beginnings in the complex mix of low wages, the humiliation of pass laws, the hardship of migrant …
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… the reasonable wants of whites. According to the 1852-1853 Commission Report it was recommended that 'All kaffirs should … which has few Zulus at present,…
ArchiveReport on the Domestic Workers Employment Bureau Presented at National Conference 1976
… on 17 March 1976 discussing Conditions of Employment, wages, minimum wages, leave, travelling expenses, training centre. …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… a sense bargain for better working conditions, as well as wages. [7] Roosevelt felt that a significant part of the … come from decreasing competition…
ArchiveRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
… got to know the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) , an increasingly radicalised movement of mainly white … – truth be told – afterwards)…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… repressive state. In 1936 the government's Native Affairs Commission stated that: "Turning the Native into a lower … make some temporary concessions to…
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Durban
… reports, minutes of previous conference, migrant labour, wages, labour laws, Campaign on African Women, resettlement, tax for Black people, domestic workers…
EventMafika Gwala born
… firstly joining National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) that later split to form the South African Students …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… legally recognised by the state. The Industrial Relations Commission, appointed by the National Party government called … as a result of the campaigns and…
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… at the Cape on 6 April 1652. van Riebeeck had received a commission from the Dutch East India Trading Company (VOC) to … the white-owned mining companies to…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… Selby Msimang in connection with a movement for higher wages at Bloemfontein . August, Clements Kadalie, the founder … leader from Bloemfontein, who had been…
ArchiveIsisebenzi December 1972 (English Translation)
… well. This lead companies to compete on paying better wages. Bosses never liked this wage competition. As they …
70. The Durban riots, 1949
… of the convulsion, and the failure of the Riots Inquiry Commission to come to grips with the fundamental reasons for … 6d. a yard: today it is at 2s. 6d. per…
EventAbout 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion
… off and those who were not had to be satisfied with lower wages and the deskilling of certain jobs. The strike … the ratio of black workers to white, for…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… of sustainable jobs, including the introduction of minimum wages in order to close the wage gap between the rich and the …
Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money
… The Industrial Conciliation Act made provision for minimum wages to employees, but at that time the fixing of contract … difference for himself. Wholesale…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… of its segregationist policies as a member of the Wilcox commission of enquiry into the socio-economic condition of …
BiographyGovin Reddy
… was as a director on the board of the National Lotteries Commission (NLC), serving two periods and once again finding … India and director on the Board of…
Dealing with the past and facing the future
… follows is a brief summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. You can read far more detail by going to SAHO's … the apartheid past was to hold a…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… of education. In 1949 the government appointed the Eiselen Commission with the task of considering African education … a teacher at one of the schools…
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… of Indian affairs to the South African government. A commission was appointed to look into circumstances of the … 1913 so he could prepare to testify in…