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Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the Platteland to the Slums of the City: Farm Girls Turned Into Factory Hands
… conditions. With regret, it must be stated that even the Labour Party failed' in its duty. Here was a glorious opportunity for the Labour Party to establish…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… were established to provide a readily available supply of labour, but had to be far away from white residential areas. …
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… the Brits and the Boers in their need to secure cheap labour. So despite their differences, the Brits and the Boers …
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… Act and sentenced to nine months imprisonment with hard labour, suspended for two years. He Opens South Africa’s …
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… 607 black troops serving in the South African Native Labour Contingent, died when the steamship sank in the … carrying the Fifth Battalion of the South…
PlaceCiskei
… to provide White South Africa with cheap, controlled labour pools. The working population of Zwelitsha township, … neither economically viable nor legal…
Challenges facing workers and unions: The role of the ANC by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… role of the trade unions and the structural changes in the labour market. This policy area will have an important … we cannot confine our attention to the…
EventSlavery abolished in the Cape
… the Cape Colony. Further reading list: A history of prison labour in South Africa Indenture: A new system of slavery? …
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - … co-operative society in the history of South African Labour is the best example of this…
America, Spanish conquest
… society, every person had to work without pay, because labour was seen as a form of tax. Shortly before the … the Incas to work for them for low wages. They…
EventAbout 22 000 miners on Witwatersrand gold mines go on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion
… so by targeting what it deemed unduly highly paid white labour. The Chamber of Mines therefore announced that they would reduce labour costs by removing the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… and policies, is seriously considering the role of the labour movement in its programme. This working class did not … long ago, and take the journey to the…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
… an era of expansionism and bloodshed, of land seizure and labour coercion. Taking the form of a mass migration into the … society. Killing and looting were…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… than black agents to particular places in the division of labour", while it also created industrial relations … with black workers. Caught between white…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… to force indigenous peoples into the European-controlled labour market. Discontent was welling up among many black … the farmer out of resentment for having…
A new class struggle
… desperately petitioned the Governor to introduce Indian labour. While people such as Harry Escombe, were stirring up … indenture; it made them return to…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… days later management fires 940 strikers, then hire scab labour. The union begins massive solidarity campaigns to … gets legal help against BTR Sarmcol on…
Say It out Loud - The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
… .... In 1928 there was a further increase of European labour, and the clothing and sweet-making industries show the … in selfishness, which has always been…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… South Africa in response to evictions of farm workers and labour tenants from commercial farms. Formed as an umbrella … of their family on the land that they…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… mathematical thought. [4] It could be argued that the free labour of subject women subsidised the preservation of sona … In ancient Greek and Roman society…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… most people became involved in one or other form of wage labour. A large number were forced to become labourers on white-owned farms. Here a labour tenant…
Document 61 - A. Mon [M. N. Averbach] 4 , “A Comment on Trotsky’s Letter to S.A.”, Worker’s Voice, 1, 3, July 1945 […]
… proletariat kept in readiness in vast reservoirs of labour - the Reserves - driven out of these reserves by … in which imperialism built up a supply of cheap…
EventThe recommendations of the Riekert Commission (to investigate the employment conditions of Black workers) are tabled
… result, the government set up a Commission of Inquiry into Labour Legislation in 1977. This became known as the Wiehahn … when seeking employment. The aim…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… black working people, to tighten the chains of the migrant labour system, and to divide and crush trade union and … were necessary to create and maintain the…
EventBambatha Rebellion
… mining companies suffered from a shortage of unskilled labour. Most African people lived off the land as farmers, … force Blacks from rural areas to the…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
… the Durban strikes initiated not only the rebirth of black labour movement in South Africa but they strengthened the liberation struggles. Keywords Black…
The Student Wages Commissions, the 1973 Durban Strikes, and the Politics of Statistics by Grace Davie
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Students played a notable role in the Durban strike wave by…
Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)
… of FEDUSA came about when the Federation of South African Labour Unions (FEDSAL) and the Federation of Organisations …
ArticleNelson Mandela: Father of the Nation
… issues such as education and the distribution of labour. Mandela stepped down as president in 1999 but …
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… Nationalist government saw the need for a trained African labour force. Through this, more African children attended …