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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 …
Document 28 - Negotiations: a strategic perspective
… concerning the Republic of South Africa (International Labour Office Geneva, 1992) accepted this principal as stated … implies that there should be no…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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? …
PlaceCiskei
… to provide White South Africa with cheap, controlled labour pools. The working population of Zwelitsha township, … neither economically viable nor legal…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
The Cape Northern Frontier
… of irregular rain, a small population, a lack of cheap labour and advanced agricultural technology. British …
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… of the poor and insecure. It called for the end to the labour colour bar, the right to organise, the extension of …
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… • Native Courts ”” civil and criminal. • Native labour General Concert and farewell Reception for the …