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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…
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… as a market for exported commodities, a source of cheap labour, raw materials and a field for capital investment … farming covered most agriculture. Slavery…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - … workers' cooperative in the history of the South African Labour Movement. This paper…
Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… standards of social conduct in the community. CIVILISED LABOUR POLICY Judging from the letters and resolutions … the Coloured people most is the Government's…
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… the natives as human beings is reflected also in the white labour movement. The following brief account of the revolutionary history of the white labour…
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… farms (but where could they go) or remain upon the farm as labour tenants who, according to this law, had to work on the … according to the Native Service…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… of South Africa, p. 10. ↵ [xxxi] UNGA Disarmament Index 2004: H-R [Online]. Available: … p://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/disarmament-fora/unga/2004/index/h…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… “abundant” and cheap” by “us[ing] only contracted migrant labour at cut-throat wages, on the assumption that African … to subsidize mine wages from the land”…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
… kill indigenous societies; instead they made use of their labour. Colonies of exploitation included Indonesia and … not only resisted but increased in size…
PlacePakhuis Pass
… on the Pakhuis Pass began in 1875, using a convict labour station officially documented in the Cape Colony … until roughly 1871, providing the manpower for…
PlaceOld Fort, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg
… the foundations started on 9 November 1896 using convict labour, while all artisans connected with the work were … and uprisings were incarcerated here. This…
EventAlbertina Sisulu addresses a major anti-apartheid rally in London.
… they met with Neil Kinnock the then leader of the British Labour Party and other members of the Labour Party as well as religious organisations and leaders. …
11. A Brahman seeks work in Natal
… who was working as an interpreter Assistant Protector of Labour and Indian Immigration, wrote to the Protector in … M. R. K. Sastrie, interpreter to…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… stayed in orphanages in Australia or became unpaid cheap labour on farms and in some instances were physically and … enquiry revealed consistent abuse,…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… are taken as prisoners of war, and forced to become slave labour. In October Hendrik Witbooi declares war on the … specific leaders in a concerted effort to…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… in succession to Marais Viljoen. The latter retains the Labour portfolio and takes over Posts and Telegraphs in … in defiance of United Nations resolutions…
Academia and activism: A unique alliance in working class organisation post 1973 by Vannessa Kruger
… Simultaneously, ad hoc volunteer structures, such as the Labour Monitoring Group, were formed during national … was driven by the articulated needs of the…
40 Years of Shop Floor Resistance in a Rubber Factory by Sithembiso Bhengu
… that the paper explores include the persisting migrant labour and migrant identity, shop floor resistance, trade … control measures, as well as the…
“White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational categories in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny
… two categories via NUCAW). In this period where a white labour shortage created pressure on commercial employers to … to examine in more detail the…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… beyond the workplace per se. Although workers sell their labour power for only a specified period of time each day and … companies, concerned only with…
Document 23 - S. P. Bunting, Statement presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 23 July 1928
… country, then it must follow that equally important is the labour which provides this profit. As a matter of fact, of … not just a medieval, feudal, peasant…
Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… All South African labour laws have objectionable features which cause bitter … in South Africa enacted its own laws. One of the earliest labour laws is the…
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… economy” could provide "abundant and inexpensive" black labour. "It is true black people are working for us”, said in … were putting their money. Abundant…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 European Societies
… the feudal system and it was their duty to provide cheap labour for the king, lords and knights. The Role of Women …
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… led to cuts in local government. He was also elected a Labour Party municipal councillor in the town of Slough where … He often felt isolated and frustrated…
Document 48 - “The Anti-C.A.D. and the Trade Unions”, The Torch, 1 April 1958
… Union Movement as represented by the Cape Federation of Labour Unions, the S.A. Trades and Labour Council, the Non-European Councils of Trade Unions … Union…
Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
… were rejected on Saturday. Overtures made on Monday by the Labour Department on our suggestion were ineffectual, and on … bosses through a deputation sent by…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… early phase in mechanised rationalisation of land-use and labour in the Babanango District, involving some of the more … ‘ who were making the changeover to…