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Document 24 - De Klerk’s reply to Nelson Mandela
… that will lead to fragmentation of policy on economy, labour market and other key strategic areas like education, … The Executive Committee welcomes the fact…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.4 No.1 Oct-Dec 1959
… Nicholas Stacey. Towards an African Literature(X): Land; Labour; Literature, Dr. A.C. Jordan. Jurie Taaiman’s …
EventSchool boycott in Port Elizabeth ends
… Port Elizabeth Black Civic Organisation (PEBCO) aligned labour force downed tools in a three day wildcat stoppage. …
EventA strike by White mineworkers turns into open rebellion
… our feature on the Rand Revolt. Read more about History of Labour struggles and organisation in South Africa. …
EventProfessor Bob Hepple is born
… Gauteng). His father, Alex Hepple, was a trade unionist, Labour Party member and Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence …
PlaceMpofu – Fort Fordyce Nature Reserve
… ten bolted routes with names like: 'The Fever Ward; The Labour Ward and the More Mojo Sector'. These Outdoor … ten bolted routes with names like the Fever…
EventThe founding member of United Democratic Front and struggle activist Johnny Issel dies
… became actively involved in the East Rand anti apartheid Labour party, contesting for the Coloured Representative …
Say It out Loud - The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906
… them. And even now, in the name of the Empire, a form of labour, differing not much from slavery, had been introduced … war, the mining magnates had not been…
Document 109 - G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, “Appeal of the National Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa”, The Liberator, September 1937
… Union of South Africa were raised by predominantly black labour. Non-European artisans, Coloured, Malay, manned the … Profits from the employment of cheap…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… organisation on this basis. Within the official Trades and Labour Council (from which TUCSA was later to emerge), black … long pursued a policy of trying to…
42. Petition from Indians at the time of Union
… of the many grievances under which they, as a community, labour, and to endeavour to secure redress before their … devised, and the grievances under which…
Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… nor fascist. Its attitude to the trade union and labour movement was not hostile and, at certain periods, it … the Nationalist Party, under General Hertzog,…
EventThe launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA
… national organizations and institutions that present labour, political parties, business ,art and culture. It has …
EventHertzog and Smuts to form a coalition
… of White and Black and the retention of the civilised labour policy. Afrikaner nationalism and African rights had …
EventPrime Minister P.W. Botha announces Ciskei will become independent on 4 December 1981
… South Africa proper. The Bantustans would then function as labour reserves for white South Africa. It is estimated that …
EventCongo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo
… missionaries. The king and his officials relied on forced labour and his reign resulted in the deaths of millions of …
74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… People shall not be robbed of their cattle, and forced labour and farm prisons shall be abolished. ALL SHALL BE … shall have the same rights as all others…
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
… shape of our new Constitution. Minority parties must not labour under the illusion that they hold some sort of … and particularly repression against the…
Document 36 - The first hearing on certification: a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… regard to the S.A. Foundation document. It was only when labour placed its document that we are being told that we are … be drafted "neutral" document. A lot…
Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo's Statement In Court In Trial For Passive Resistance, June 1946
… campaign, to three months` imprisonment with hard labour. He had been charged under the Riotous Assemblies Act … was then sentenced to three months`…
PlaceLadysmith
… the Town Council both touted its workers as the largest labour force in the province. Ezakheni was created to accommodate and control Ladysmith’s labour…
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
… once again wrote to the Heeren XVII, asking for Slave Labour. He wrote in his letter; ‘if it could be agreed upon, … Town. He stated with grave concern that…
Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas to James Ramsay MacDonald,
… yesterday afternoon. At a Special Conference of the S. A. Labour Party held in Johannesburg on August 22nd it was … The position now is that Andrews, all the…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
The area known as District Six got its name from having been the Sixth Municipal District of Cape Town in 1867. Its earlier unofficial name was 'Kanaldorp', a…
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… mainly from Cornwall, who were also active in the union labour movement. In 1909 Langlaagte Deep was taken over by …
EventSACTU launches a national potato boycott.
… The potato boycott began in protest against slave-like labour conditions for Black workers on potato farms. In areas …
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa’s longest wage strike
… and wage increases for mineworkers. Click here to read our Labour history project …
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… fifty-four seats; the Unionists thirty-nine; four for the Labour Party, while independent candidates won six. General …
EventDeputy Minister of Defence attends commemoration of Delville Wood
… the site. The names of Black members of the South African Labour Corps who died at Arques-la-Bataille and those who …