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Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… of struggle by African mineworkers, the tradition of the ICU in the 1920s, the success of the CNETU during the second …
In the name of art - A reflection on fine art
… 20: the image of Samson was painted on the wall of the ICU (Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union) durin g the …
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… Both the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) organised … faction within its ranks. By the early…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… political matters. His reference in the above quote to the ICU is significant because of the lesson he drew from the destructive rivalry of the ANC and the…
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… as the Native toiling masses rose to the struggle, the ICU began openly to voilate the imperialist laws, to organise strikes, demonstra- tions, etc., the ICU…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… the good work done by worker`s organisations like the ICU (Industrial and Commercial Workers Union). The African …
Address delivered by the Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, at the National Union of Mineworkers National Congress, 24 May 2006
… this country the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), in 1920 in Bloemfontein, was formed with the full …
Document 23 - S. P. Bunting, Statement presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 23 July 1928
… to be admitted to that organisation. It is true that the ICU which hitherto has been a strong union of natives in …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… links with the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU). The ICU was very influential in channeling African political … 73-74). The role of women in…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… Both the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) organised … faction within its ranks. By the early…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… of the Durban system, 1900-1917 p45 CHAPTER 3 The ICU, beer and bureaucracy, 1918- 1929 . …
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… in native bodies like the African National Congress or ICU ; promotion of an assistance to native trade unions, …
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… black workers in South Africa. Following the demise of the ICU in the early 1940s, the mine workers were the first to …
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… that of the workers. In 1926, the Durban branch of the ICU powerfully voiced the grievances of migrant workers on …
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The Conference was formally opened in the City Hall, on…
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
I must admit at the outset that when we first met in this hall six years ago, we and our people, who looked spell-bound at Convention, were full of great…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… had been organised by the industrial Commercial Union (ICU). He began to attend ICU meetings where he heard the lCU leader Clements Kadalie …
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… Commercial Workers' Union at its peak in 1927 - and the ICU was a general union which never organised along …
A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
… for example the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), appealing to tenants threatened with eviction and to … were particularly unsettled by the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Christian Missions and the Bantu
From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu The old order changeth; and so we behold today in the drama of the life of the South…
Chapter 11
African National Congress Now it is not so difficult to recognise the first two obstacles to progress because the link between them and the government is…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… caused by the interests of whites. Thus he wrote: "In the ICU left and right sections tried to please left and right …
The Pioneers
… the hall of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) in Johannesburg, in the 1930s. It portrays the biblical …
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
GANGEN-GEORGE PONNEN - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN HIS COUNTRY, SOUTH AFRICA. I was…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… Kadalie of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), tribal chiefs (members of the Transkei Bunga), …
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… who were competing for leadership were AWG Champion of the ICU, one Reverend Abner Mtimkulu who was then Natal …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… 1925 New pier built in Cape Town Harbour. ICU headquarters shifted from Cape Town to Johannesburg. Alex …
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… first by the SANC (then ANC), founded in 1912, then by the ICU and the movement inspired by Marcus Garvey through …
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… University Donald Gordon Medical Centre and Medi-Clinic ICU. Her doctor, Professor Jeff Wing, announced that she died …
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (the ICU) and the ANC. Besides the newly burgeoning African trade …