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BiographyJosiah Tshangana Gumede
… allegiance of two socialist organisations, the Independent Labour Party and the Union of Democratic Control. The pair …
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… a member of a deputation from the South African Trades and Labour Council, which had called upon him to discuss matters … In 1942 I was elected to a…
ArchiveA Black South Africans view of the present
… has affected Africans because of the demands for labour. This has drawn Blacks into the urban and industrial …
ArchiveAn African view of the present urban and industrial situation in South Africa
… on Black workers have not stopped together with unfair labour practices by employers.. …
ArchiveProgramme of action for the ANC
… power, Gangsterism, Living Wage, Privatisation and Labour Issues. Looks at structure of the campaigns. Also …
ArchiveHistory of Wages Commissions: formation, aims and structure
… notes from the National Union of South African Students Labour Directive, July workshop, University of the …
EventThe fifteenth annual conference of Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) alters its constitution
… they were not recognised and not registered under the Labour Relations Act. …
EventWhite entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the ‘homelands’
… their race and their need for work while restricted to a labour pool 'homeland'. …
Chapter 29. Policy and Tactics of The Union
… rural areas and to whom even the terms "trade unionism", "labour", "socialism", were completely alien. We had to look … the workers have in the struggle…
ArchiveBackground to the 20th anniversary of Republic Day, 31st May 1981
… events include: the general strike, represive legislation, labour unrest, school boycotts, civil war, and the rights of …
Black Renaissance: Papers from the Black Renaissance Convention, December 1974
… Africa; Black Consciousness and the economic position; The labour situation in South Africa; Social communications (mass …
EventManilal Gandhi leads a resistance group across the Natal
… his group are arrested and sentenced to three months hard labour. See our Defiance Campaign chronology and our feature …
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… as well as being a poet in his own right, a respected labour commentator and cultural innovator. The analysis and … of the brilliantly coloured Gwala-Gwala…
EventGovernment's final consolidation of 'homelands'
… The reality was that they became impoverished as cheap labour pools ruled by chiefs controlled by the apartheid …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… the interaction of wealth and politics in South Africa, of labour history and thus the history of African society. In … population and the…
ArchiveWiehahn Commission: precis of speech
… Precis of speech on the Wiehahn Commission of Inquiry into labour legislation, by Auret van Heerden, President of the …
EventJomo Kenyatta is elected Prime Minister of Kenya
… A few years earlier, Kenyatta had been sentenced to hard labour and was restricted following his arrest in 1952 …
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… estates belonged to nobles. They were worked by servile labour that did the fishing, animal raising for milk, meat … kingdom of Benin, near the Niger Delta…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… was now busy appropriating the fruits of the workers labour. It was this same policy which set the indigenes of the Cape free to labour for the new settler…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… existed at least to lay down the roots for a mass party of labour - a party which could, as it arose, have welded black … in 1917. In South Africa, around…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984
… a just minimum wage which is tied to the cost-of-living index. The time has come that we combine in action to push …
Statement on June 16 by O. R. Tambo, 1984
… a just minimum wage which is tied to the cost-of-living index. The time has come that we combine in action to push …
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… and British governments. To read more about mining labour and the migrant labour system visit SAHO’s feature on Johannesburg . Tension …
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… and Gilbert Matshoba are sentenced to six years hard labour at De Beer’s Convict Station in Kimberley. One hundred … are sentenced to between 12 and 18…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… the invasion. The South African Party was supported by the Labour Party and the Unionists. Herzog’s National Party voted … as a result of drought, plagues,…
Document 28 - Letterfrom E. R. Roux to the Central Executive, Communist Party of South Africa, 25 September 1928
… of just as "natives". When addressing members of the Labour Party or white trade unionists, of course one wants to … to me to create a feeling of hostility…
ArchiveRelations with Other Groups Committee report
… Relations with Black student organisations, community, labour and women's organisations, academics, religious …
ArchiveInterview with Alexander Hepple
… of the South African parliament for the white socialist Labour Party from 1953 to 1958, and edited its newspaper …
EventCosatu celebrates its 18 th anniversary
… after unity talks to create a non-racial and non-sexiest labour union in South Africa. The anniversary coincided with …
EventThe Defence Special Tribunal Act becomes effective
… 1999. The law, assented to on 20 October 1998, enabled the Labour Court to act as a special tribunal in the event of …