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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…
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…
Document 7 - ‘White South Africa.’ Two Voices.” The International, 27 January 1922
… place the natives in white men's positions AT STARVATION WAGES." Natives at starvation wages, that is the thing to attack: that is what ruins the … palm to…
Chapter 24. Sack All Non-Europeans
… rejected all the union's demands but, stressing the low wages that were being paid in the coastal areas, demanded a reduction in wages. The union was faced…
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…
EventReport on ANC detention camps is released
… National Congress (ANC) released a report by an internal commission of inquiry (the Skweyiya Commission), appointed to investigate detainee abuse allegations…
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
… to be gold areas. The Government appointed the Foetham Commission to investigate the case of the gold area. The … c) It intensifies the problem of…
PlaceVenda
… of the men from the Area were Migrant Workers and their wages made up about 40% of the small Homeland's income. Venda …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… In 1932 the government instituted the Native Economic Commission (NEC) to propose steps aimed at addressing the … unscientific farming practices of rural…
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
… and support to all those workers who suffered reduction of wages and loss of jobs because they obeyed our call to stay … and sympathy with those who lost…
Constitution, Rules and Bye-Laws, I.C.U. Yase Natal, 1929 [Extracts]
… I.C.U. Yase Natal, to protect, sgulate and increase the wages of its members nd to obtain and maintain just and … possible value for its members when…
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
… taken against her. As result of the report, a presidential commission under chairmanship of Judge Hefer was instituted … made by Munusamy. She was subpoenaed…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… meeting other activists, serving on the student wages commission, joining the Release Mandela Committee. Then …
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… the Reef struck for Trade Union recognition. A judicial Commission was appointed after the termination of the strike, … learned to be organised and struggle…
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria
… as stated by Hendrik Verwoerd. In addition, the Minimum Wages Act No. 27 of 1925 gave the Minister for Labour the … of the Public Protector, the South…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… in the establishment of the South African Native Affairs Commission (SANAC). The SANC strongly opposed the SANAC … Luthuli gives evidence to the South…
ArticleTrevor Andrew Manuel and Economic Freedom Fighters - High Court of South Africa - Gauteng Local Division - Johannesburg
… as a Minister in the Presidency for the National Planning Commission. He has held positions in numerous international … Forwarding (Johannesburg) (Pty) Ltd v…
Liberation
… collapse. We have starved because of unemployment and low wages. We have seen our children stunted because of little … rights NGOs like those affiliated to…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
Long before the inception of apartheid "Coloured" people in South Africa occupied this precarious position between White and Black South Africans. This…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… conditions of Black South Africans, including low wages, limited business opportunities, and the restricted …
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… Development Community 1996 – 2001. Chairman of World Solar Commission, South Africa 1995 – 2005. Deputy Chair of the …
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… established as a ‘C’ mandate under the Permanent Mandates Commission of the League of Nations, and administered as part … then only for adequate remuneration…
Rafique Mayet
… Photography, 1996. He worked for the Independent Electoral Commission during the first democratic elections in 1994, …
Lerato Maduna
… a Finnish photographer, was awarded a photographic commission as part of the International Photographic Research …
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
… my brothers found jobs in a Sheet Metal Factory, for megre wages of 10/- - 15/- per week of 6 days. To make ends meet my … as the white girls, the white…
ArchiveSummary of activities taken against the Christian Institute and Spro-Cas between August 1973 and January 1974
… Chronology of the Commission of Enquiry into Certain Organizations, which became a parliamentary Commission of Enquiry known as the Schlebusch Commission…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… Police Act No 7: Commenced: 27 February 1981 1980 - 1981 Commission of Inquiry on the Constitution Mandate: To inquire … including a twenty-five percent…
Document 130 - Communists in Conference: The 1943/44 National Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa
… must be more adequate. Jobs must be ensured at trade-union wages. Betty Sacks, Cape Town Councillor, agrees with him, … policy of "reducing cost of +…
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… The employers again demanded a reduction of the workers' wages by twenty-five per cent. to bring the wages on the Rand into line with coastal rates. The…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… white National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), is thought to have ‘heralded the beginnings of the … largely by the belief that the white dominance…