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A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… their families broken up. While prices have gone up, our wages have been pegged down and our poverty has become …
New Age
… and their demands for better working conditions and wages. The leaders used their writing skills to document the …
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…
ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2009 to 2010
… Cwele Minister in the Presidency for the National Planning Commission Trevor Manuel Minister in the Presidency for …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… the elections are conducted by the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa, an independent body established …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 2: Policing and Resistance
… as a community instead. After the tragedy took place a commission was set up to investigate and suggest outcomes - … and Resistance episode, was a member of…
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…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… Native Service Contract Act. Report of the Carnegie Commission on the Poor White Problem. 5 April, The Report on … Transvaal Asiatic Land Tenure Act. 4…
EventThe TRC is set up by parliament
… legislation to set up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1995. The Commission, based on the Promotion of National Unity and … all sides. No section…