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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. …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… meant to highlight other grievances. These included low wages and high rents in the townships. Low wages were the norm, reinforced by the fact that Black…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… policy for imported Europeans and maintained African wages at the lowest level. Out of this arose the high ratio … way. Under such circumstances, the…
Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… employers demanded a reduction of twenty-five per cent. in wages and this demand was countered by a request from the union for a substantial increase in…
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… it recommends the establishment of a National History Commission bringing in the expertise from education, history, … heritage studies, anthropology and…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
… made this point several times and yet people talk about Nusas, they talk about...they don’t talk about the fact that the Nusas of the 70s was a very…
ArchiveCosatu News
… workers to gain power in the workplace in order to improve wages and work conditions and ultimately to replace …
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
… with convict labour, or he is in a mine receiving wages far below those enjoyed by white miners, or may be he … a loan, to be recovered by compulsory…
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
… with convict labour, or he is in a mine receiving wages far below those enjoyed by white miners, or may be he … a loan, to be recovered by compulsory…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… the year there were also protests against beer halls, wages and passes, and in 1958 protests were held to coincide …
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Africa. 1931 Xuma testifies before the Native Economic Commission and Liquor Commission. 21 October: Xuma marries Amanda Priscilla Mason, … unions, Xuma…
ArticleSouth African History Online and Southern Methodist University Partnership Project
… topics have surrounded the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2012-2013), twenty years of democracy (2013), …
4. Complaint of ill-treatment on an estate
… no fish, ghee or rice. I work seven weeks for a month's wages. This has been the case for the last 2 years. When I … only 4 and 5 weeks to a month. I have…
59. The South African Federation challenges Congress over the settlement
… with the equal pay for equal work principle the Asiatic Commission placed on record their considered opinion thus: … on the disastrous consequences from…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… by “us[ing] only contracted migrant labour at cut-throat wages, on the assumption that African mineworkers—brought … periods—were really peasants, able to…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… prompted the Indian Government to withdraw its High Commission in South Africa as well as to cut off all its …
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… In 1949 the government appointed the Eiselen Commission with the task of considering African education provision. The Commission recommended ‘resorting to…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… in a student demonstration in protest of the Simons Commission and was arrested as a result. He received a six … the original 1930 document and it also set…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… African miners came out on strike for an increase in wages. Smuts called out the police; six Africans were killed … African miners came out on strike for a…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… to which the aborigines have been brought by the unjust wages obtaining at a time of severe stress in the cost of … 1930 the immediate causes of unrest were…
DOCUMENT 37. “Black Power--Students Forced to Leave Meeting.” Article in Dome (University of Natal), March 27, 1969
… shown that unorganised workers are unable to improve their wages and conditions of work on a lasting basis. Only where … of the workers, both the immediate…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
… the OAU Charter provided for the establishment of a Commission of Mediation, Conciliation and Arbitration which … (Article XX) was made for the establishment…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… took the decision not to cooperate with the Feetham Commission , appointed under the Asiatic Land Tenure … community. June, Following the publication of…
Vella Pillay
… in the British civil service and Patsy at the Indian High Commission in London, as secretary to the then High …
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… African workers in Durban broke out in protest against low wages. In total 61,000 workers went on strike. The strikes … It was only after the government…
Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise
… (SACTU) Links SA Labour History Project site The Wiehahn commission in a brief political and economic context The …
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… of education. In 1949 the government appointed the Eiselen Commission with the task of considering African education … a teacher at one of the schools…
Document 47 - “Answer to Government’s Apartheid Unions”, The Citizen. 1 3, 30 April 1956
… arbitration - organised and successfully fought for higher wages. The wages of I.C.U. worker were doubled from 4/- to 8/- per day. …
Introduction
… too far removed from slavery. There are complaints of low wages, long hours, low rations, inadequate attention to … Durban Corporation made out a pretty good…