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ArticleOrganisations involved in Youth and the National Liberation Struggle
… African Students Association (ASA) African Student Union of South Africa (ASUSA) Durban Students Union Cape Peninsula Student Union Society of Young Africa …
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS , Congress of South African Students COSATU , … African Trade Unions CWIU, Chemical Workers Industrial…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… Indian Committee, comprising of the Natal Indian Patriotic Union and the Natal Indian Congress (NIC), is established. At … incorporation of the four self…
ArticleNational symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
… replaced the old coat old arms which had been used since 1910. This new coat of arms represents the change in South …
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… colonial administration moves from Mombasa to Nairobi. 1910 Nairobi becomes the official capital of Kenya. 1914 … source 1940 The KCA is banned. 1942 The…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… – such as governments, political parties, trade unions and union federations or the United Nations, but also masses of … South African War), Britain granted…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… 1919 Formation of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU). 1924 Introduction of Industrial … (Transvaal) (CNETU). Formation of the…
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… the strikes. Only Harriet’s furniture and textile union, as well as the tin workers union to a lesser degree, offered any assistance to workers … These…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the … by Eddie Cottle The British…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… historical and Á¦sthetic worth and helped make this union available to all at a time when such broad social … sister and brother enjoyed further study before…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… the name of Mary Fitzgerald set the tone for women’s trade union activism in the years that would follow. Known as the … 15) Ma Baard, another woman that…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… the indictment of the leaders of the African Mineworkers Union and members of the CPSA, and continued into the fifties … committed itself entirely to the…
Why protect worker’s rights?
… Every worker has the right to form and join a trade union; to participate in the activities and programmes of a trade union; and to strike. Every employer…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… and non-racial industrial unions merged to form one trade union called South African Trades and Labour Council (SATLC), … and ideological affiliations…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… at the beginning of 1973 which marked a renewal of trade union activity after a decade-long lull. Background of the trade union movement Although trade…
ArticleHarriet and the Bolton Hall Four
… - either TUCSA supported the protest meeting, or the union would withdraw from TUCSA. The GWIU was TUCSA’s … GWIU would disaffiliate. She also said that the…
ArticleGeneral Factory Workers Benefit fund (GFWBF)
… illegal for black workers to belong to a registered trade union, as a consequence black workers joined the benefit fund as it functioned as a cover for trade…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… by workers who demanded the recognition of their union, and a wage of 10 shillings a day, a wage that the … Even before the formation of the African Mine…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… organisations which began during the strike, when trade union and political offices and homes of officials were … forms of struggle. Birth of the African…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… coasts in Africa, was an important centre for early trade union activity, although the workers knew very little about trade union work. In 1924, the South…
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… service. 1879 Founding of the first two Whites-only rugby union clubs in South Africa, Hamilton and the Villagers. 1883 … of the Whites-only Western Province…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… articles on South Africa’s growing independent trade union movement. By working with different and mutually … (COSATU) as they believed in the need for a…
ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
… Trade Unions (FOSATU) was the first South African trade union federation that organised mostly Black employees that … umbrella organisation that could…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… of the African-based Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU). However, these unions remained lethargic until … of these trade unions was the African…
ArticleIndian women workers, Durban’s clothing industry and the GWIU
… and the executive attempted to install more democracy into union structures and improve contact with workers. The union held a week-long election process for…
Article1973 Durban Strikes Conference , 26-28 January 2023 - Celebrating 50 Years
January 8, 2023, will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Durban Strikes and the emergence of a new wave of independent non-racial trade unions. This was…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… unrivalled contribution to the building of the black trade union movement as a vital instrument of struggle against the … in the mine compounds. In 1941,…
ArticleHow Lenin and Stalin are remembered today?
… West was nervous about the new developments in the Soviet Union, the largest country in the world. This is because the … sides either for or against…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… be made available to "natives and other non-Europeans". 1910 March, the last group of indentured Chinese miners are repatriated. 31 May, the Union of South…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… 1856-1910 Masters and Servants Acts of 1856 These Acts, which had … and 1904 in the four territories, remained in force after Union. They made it a criminal…