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The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
… world, it is worth risking endemic silicosis for unmatched wages for skilled men. For poor white Afrikaners, the mines … of war and landlordism. For Africans…
Indian education in Natal
… children on the sugar estate 1872 August, The Coolie Commission drew the attention of the Government to the necessity of educating Indians. The Commission?s…
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… requires job creation and closing the gap between starter wages in the economy against the huge salaries and bonuses of … mine in the Northwest Province…
From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Conference on Fifty years since the 1973 Durban strikes Durban…
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) joined the organisation and became one of its leading … Social Justice , 17(4): 455-462. Truth and…
New Age
… and their demands for better working conditions and wages. The leaders used their writing skills to document the …
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… Jaarsveld later testified at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission about this incident. Days later, on 30 March, the …
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… Reports such as those of the South African Native Affairs Commission; Political and social developments. When Dube …
ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2009 to 2010
… Cwele Minister in the Presidency for the National Planning Commission Trevor Manuel Minister in the Presidency for …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… growth provided jobs for 26 000 more workers, the wages of the semi-skilled remained very low. The Pact … migrant labour, so that the land helped to support…
The National Arts Festival
… Fringe attracted sponsorship from the National Lottery Commission (NLC) when the NAF partnered with the institution … Cape Government, Standard Bank, the…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… whitedominated National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). Among school learners, the South African Students’ … white-controlled National Union of…
Document 120 - Draft Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa (c. 1940)41
… reduces all workers down to the same low grade. Low wages drive out high wages. The capitalist wants "cheap" labour and thousands of … over certain jobs, is…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… of Mfengu beach labourers lay down tools and demand higher wages. In June 1852 they again go on strike, following the … which had previously been performed…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… the elections are conducted by the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa, an independent body established …
EventThe African National Congress is found guilty
… by The Star on this date , the report of the Motsuenyane Commission, published the previous day, confirmed the findings of the previously appointed Skweyiya…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… have to pay this tax if they proved that they worked for wages for at least three months of the year. Most African men … or in towns, or avoid paying the…
Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
… of black workers, spurring the formation of the NUSAS Wages Commissions . Along with Cheadle my father was also a … state banned him in March 1973, along…
Event15 000 applications for gold mining permits received per week in Johannesburg
… the white-owned mining companies to control workers, keep wages very low and gain immense profits from the diamonds and …
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… moves from job to job but is dissatisfied by his low wages and the inability to get closer to his goals. 1928 …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… live with employers. Sir Henry Ernest Bulwer appoints a commission under Justice Walter Thomas Wragg to investigate … impact of new Indian immigrants on the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… their economic situation. We have also seen how the higher wages and privileges of the established craft workers in … extra ways of adding to, or…
Freedom Charter and the United Nations by E.S. Reddy
… the Students' Common Room. The students, Halton Cheadle (NUSAS Local Chairman), Dave Hemson, Jennifer Brown and …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… board continued forcing the institution to appoint a commission to look into student grievances. As a result of … on 13 September the government appointed…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… Twenty-first Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa ". Lusaka, 21 April 1979 " Speech by …
ArticleHigh Farce in the House
… instituted a probe, and Botha was forced to appoint a commission of inquiry into Rajbansi’s affairs. The report …
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… to hire black labourers, who were not entitled to the same wages as Whites. The Urban Areas Act was passed to limit the … post-World-War-Two unemployment…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… Durban City Council (DCC) in its evidence to the Thornton Commission maintains that there were few available sites … to provide housing on a viable basis…
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… to force the Native peasants to go and work for miserable wages, the Colonial Government has imposed high taxes on the … what they ought to get for their…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
Nithianandan Ganese Govender (Elvis) was born on 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern…