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Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… it recommends the establishment of a National History Commission bringing in the expertise from education, history, … heritage studies, anthropology and…
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…
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…
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…
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), …
ArchiveCosatu News
… workers to gain power in the workplace in order to improve wages and work conditions and ultimately to replace …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 European Societies
… were previously cheap labourers could compete for higher wages and freedom after the plague. The decline in population … to the bubonic plague peasants…
"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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Vella Pillay
… in the British civil service and Patsy at the Indian High Commission in London, as secretary to the then High …
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… prompted the Indian Government to withdraw its High Commission in South Africa as well as to cut off all its …
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…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure Act. 4 October, The Feetham Commission, led by Mr Justice Feetham, is appointed to … of India, Kunwar Sir Maharaj Singh,…
Fosatu Worker News
… of workers united in their determination to obtain better wages, shorter working hours and basic worker rights. …