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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 …
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveBuilders of the nation: 10
… Rebirth of the Democratic Labour Movement. COSATU stike. …
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…
An Eastern Cape Postscript
… Article on African farm labour in the Eastern Cape, Bathurst district. …