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ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… state crackdown following the uprising. Collins set up a commission of inquiry into the killings and put Sydney … organisations in the 1970s. Williamson…
Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… of the union to eliminate sweating and underpayment of wages in established workshops met with considerable success. … in the dishonorable practice of making…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… unions as well as public service work they ‘ won higher wages and better overtime rates for all workers, ten public … only issue that women were fighting for…
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… Pieter Swanepoel, a labourer-fitter on the railways. His wages were about £6 a month, but we got a free railway house … I found it impossible to live with…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… wage rates than craft workers. They had to accept low wages because they were weakly organised, with little … policy. The reasoning was that women did not…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Glossary
Extra note: In order to standardise the “Terms you need to Know” articles in the Classroom Section, all definitions are accessed from https://www.dictionary…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… reduction of the Indian population - - - The Thornton Commission ↵ The Cape Town Agreement recommended an … community is allowed to express its views to the…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… Vorster had begun a process for constitutional reforms. A commission headed by Erica Theron was appointed to improve … the affairs of coloured people in…
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
… the President of AZASO Joe Phaahla addressed the 1981 NUSAS National Congress held in Cape Town in December 1981. … AZASO/SANSCO mobilised students together…
Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA)
… sector is under too much strain to provide increased wages. In stark contrast, COSATU demanded a 10 percent wage …
Class Struggle
… society, workers constantly strive to increase their real wages - in effect by reducing profits for the factory owners. … sought to increase their profits by…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… 0 Total 99.99 19 533 498 400 Source: INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION 1994 Report of the Independent Electoral Commission: The South African Elections of…
EventRobert Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid
… student movement National Union of South African Students(NUSAS). In his speech he referred to a 'Day of Affirmation' …
Document 72 - Letter from R. T. R. Molefe to London comrades, 21 February 1938
… will take years, while we were suffering on account of low wages. We - the committee instructed our secretary com RL to … to the manager of Scaw works. 1…
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… - organizations like Idasa, the End Conscription Campaign, Nusas, the Centre for Conflict Resolution or Centre for … both… organizations like the End…
Document 61 - A. Mon [M. N. Averbach] 4 , “A Comment on Trotsky’s Letter to S.A.”, Worker’s Voice, 1, 3, July 1945 […]
… one million city African workers. The figures in the Mine Wages Commission Report of 1943-44 showed that the families of the … the V.F.P. workers were almost…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… ... their conditions were far from idyllic." Teachers' wages were low and sporting facilities inadequate. Despite … indigenous religions. Working-class…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… Cape Town, 18 January 1923 1. Minimum or Standard rate of wages for all the African Workers throughout South. … Victims in Native Disturbance, October 23rd,…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… position as artisan slaves, with the right to work for wages, developed an attitude of aloofness which likewise has … labour policy ported Europeans, and…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… to recognize the Union and the workers' demands that their wages and conditions be raised to the level of Cape Town … ' All strikes supported by SACTU…
ArchiveEast London Advice Office Annual Report 1975 to 1976
… Conference on 16 March 1976 discussing case statistics, wages, marriage birth and death certificates, housing. …
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… to Passive Resistance In February 1945, the third Broome Commission resumed its work. A. I. Kajee and S.R. Naidoo had … dead" and this time the Indians…
ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
… geographical mobility, and stop upwards pressure on wages. This economic importance of apartheid for the White … minority should not be overlooked. Relying…
ArchiveMalnutrition: Fact or Fiction: Fact Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1973
… Malnutrition, migrant labour, infant mortality rates, wages, poverty. …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… in cramped compounds without any privacy and earning low wages. Like mineworkers, factory workers also had to battle … were black men or white women, they…
ArchivePresidential address presented at the Black Sash National Conference
… Conference on 31 October 1960, discussing: Pass Laws, wages, state of emergency, Apartheid, human rights, unjust …
ArchiveWorkers! do you know your rights on
… of Labour poster. Multicoloured poster. For information on wages, maternity leave, hours of work and leave, list of …
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… As wives and mothers, it falls upon us to make small wages stretch a long way. It is we who feel the cries of our … and in the urban areas, who depend wholly…
ArchiveFattis and Monis strike
… workers from Fattis nd Monis, on strike for higher wages and better working conditions. …
ArchiveMetalworkers unite! : Abolish the wage gap!
… and white photos of three workers earning very different wages. Notice of IMF General meetings on 30th April and 14th …