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EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… become unpopular with Africans due to attempts to reduce wages in order to maximize profit margins and the fact that … largely unsuccessful as Whites tended…
ArchiveWorking on the mines is no picnic!
… more than 100 000 miners have taken strike action over wages, bad and unsafe working conditions and the harassment …
ArchivePeoples Courts in Port Elizabeth: Paper Pres
… Conference on 2 March 1991 discussing unemployment, wages, crime, lack of police response to crime, kangaroo …
ArchiveNew maternity benefits at Henkel
… at Prospecton will be paid as much as 78 percent of their wages during maternity leave as a result of a new agreement …
ArchiveThe Black Sash Durban Advice Office: Report to National Conference 1976
… Conference on 16 March 1976 discussing Case Statistics, wages, Trade Unions, worker's rights, housing, employment …
Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… for about three years, until 1932, without any increase in wages. In 1932-a year of depression-I came to Johannesburg … him telling us that, although the…
ArchiveThe Black Sash Johannesburg Advice Office: Annual Report 1973
… Apartheid, separation of husbands and wives, housing, wages, legal assistance. …
Luli
… We shall see later how they did this by forcing down the wages of the unskilled workers. Deep-Level Mining The early …
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
… workers were occupied in a turbulent struggle for decent wages, union recognition and survival. Alex Hepple states: …
ArchivePatons moves to Bophuthatswana
… it can expect to pay its new employees a quarter of the wages. …
NUM News
… by workers in the mines with regard to work conditions, wages, hostel accommodation, retrenchments and other related …
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… Media Online According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, Colonel Mkosana instructed forces … image reflects the sentiments of the…
ArchiveFact Paper on Employer and Employee Relationships and Low Wage Structure Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1972
… October 1972, discussing: Employer and employee relations, wages, worker's rights, black labour, human relations, …
ArchiveWorkers demand a living wage
… It also talks about workers demands, the increase of the wages and their rights to strike. …
ArchiveSurvey on Black Women in Employment in a number of Pinetown factories: Conference Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1978
… on 14 March 1978 discussing employment statistics, wages and discrimination between black and white, men and …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… strike on the Witwatersrand. February, The Asiatic Inquiry Commission, headed by Sir Johannes Lange, is appointed to … to restrict Indian trade. Anti-Indian…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… the following two weeks. 18 December, The Indian Inquiry Commission, also known as the Solomon Commission, commences its sittings in Pretoria. 1914 14 … led…
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), an organization he served as faculty advisor. His … by the adjective. In a parliamentary…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… they were subjected to as well as the substantially lower wages paid to Indian and Black workers for the same job as … Email to SAHO from Mr J. Rabe, South…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… it even more difficult for workers to survive on low wages. Spontaneous strikes resulted: workers walk out of the … and decide to set up a Politico-Military…
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… movement of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). In 1974 nine South African activists were put on …
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
… your views on the white-based organizations like ECC and Nusas. Alexander: Nusas of course, because of the wages commission had a very important role in the…
ArchiveTransport and General Workers Union
… of workers with flag (TGWU logo); text: We fight for Good Wages; a safe and healthy workplace, no unjust firings, no …
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… Colonial Office announces the appointment of a Ladies Commission to investigate the concentration camps in South Africa. The commission, whose members are…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… workers were organised and united, they could gain higher wages and a better life. In 1932, my sister Johanna was … lost the strike and, even today, they are…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
The nineteenth century was a period of several events whose socio-political and economic impact profoundly changed South Africa and the African continent…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… Society (IAS); Institute of Industrial Education (IIE); Wages Commission and Western Province Workers Advice Bureau; Trade … 44 of 1950Sec. 9 (1)30 June 1973…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
… were produced by semi-skilled women and men at much lower wages. The changing nature of production affected many other … lived, how they worked, for whom —…
ArchiveReport on Black Workers Project
… Benefit Fund and the proposed survey on salaries and wages paid to Black workers. …
Raymond Tucker: Attorney interview with Rupert Taylor 26 January 2000, 32 St John Road, Houghton, Johannesburg
… Resources Centre, it includes the Black Sash, it includes Nusas, it includes Imssa, and it looks at, the idea is to … that wasn’t Glenn Moss’s case, Glenn…