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SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… workers will now abandon their struggle for living wages and their opposition to Job Reservations and all …
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… Giving testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), Dweba's widow Daphne stated that her … In evidence given to the Truth and…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 9
… the situation static until the findings of a Transvaal Commission of Inquiry were published and the Government had … to accept this position and to await the…
EventAbolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act is adopted
… residential environments; and for the establishment of a commission under the name of the Advisory Commission on Land Allocation. The Act also repealed the…
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… Adriaan Vlok, applied to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for amnesty for his role in the bombing of a … during the apartheid era. His…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Tutu was appointed head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) by President Nelson Mandela on 29 November 1995. The Commission was set up to deal…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… had done so in 1983, more than half of them for higher wages. 10 The UDF campaigned at local and national levels. It … to dealt with operational matters - an…
EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
… workers. The Langa summit came a year after the Wiehahn commission on labour was tabled before parliament. Click here to read more about labour and Wiehahn…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… until repealed following recommendations by the Wiehan Commission at the end of the 1970s. 1960-1973 Labour … Revolt and other forms of protest. 1985 With…
Article1913 Satyagraha Campaign Resumes
… the Minister of Justice, Jan Smuts, decided to set up a commission to investigate the grievances of Indians in South Africa. The commission's report led to…
ArticleDr G M 'Monty' Naicker - Timeline
… co-operation with the ANC to restore calm and later when a commission of inquiry was appointed the two organisations … jointly briefed council. They later…
ArchiveA despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi
… from the State Security Agency in his name. Likewise the Commission of Inquiry into State Capture that is … according to explosive evidence heard last week…
Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… (b) repeated applications to the Wage Board to fix uniform wages and conditions of employment for the clothing industry … no introduction, and approach a…
Chapter 9
… teachers' associations and the question of labourers' wages the exclusive concern of the labourers . . . Let us … of the African population, so that the…
EventANC makes demands changes to facilitate democratic elections
… The ANC's NEC also calls for an independent electoral commission and an independent media commission to ensure free and fair elections, elections for a …
![”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/field/archiveimages/social_conditions_among_bantu_women_and_girls.jpg?itok=-8M0Ng6G)
Archive”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]
… At the end of their term of employment they receive the wages for which they have worked hard, and which should be … instances too much for them, they waste…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… their labour to white farmers in exchange for very low wages. These labourers mostly did not live on white farms; … resisted wage labour at this time saying,…
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… killed. Police presence in the area was increased and a commission of inquiry was appointed, made up of Bantu Administration officials. The commission was…
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… imprisonment He was the President of the International Commission of Jurists, the Chairperson of a committee of … the first chairperson of the Southern…
1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
… a period where businesses could not afford to increase the wages of Black workers while demanding an increase in …
EventArmistice day 11th Nov 1918
At 11am on the 11th November 1918 a truce came into effect between Germany and the Entente forces. This was supposed to be the war that 'ends all wars'. Yet by…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Apartheid, Reflected in an Inventory of Simple Objects by Sarah Boxer (The New York Times), 24 July 1998
… workers had resisted as being a ploy by bosses to keep wages down.'' Even a picture as intriguing as this, though, … Was it in fact social progress or part…
ANC statement on the high court`s ruling against IT, 29 October 1998
… the case between itself and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The ANC will be briefed by its lawyers about the … and persons who may be adversely…
EventA national congress, under auspices of the Dutch Reformed Church, meets to discuss the ‘poor White problem’
… Research into this issue was also funded by the Carnegie Commission, who investigated the causes for the 'poor White … Poor White Problem in South Africa:…
Dr. Pallo Jordan’s speech at the 20th anniversary of the Bisho massacre, 07 September, 2012
… conditions! It is a crime to pay African miners starvation wages while mining corporations and bosses got rich; What … get at the truth that the President…
Say It out Loud - The 1939 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 11th April, 1939
… ideals. The extreme poverty of our people, due to low wages and unemployment, in the slums where they are herded … to these questions lie between them and…
EventPolitical Activist and Advocate, Dumisa Ntsebeza, is born
… emerged as a commissioner in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1995. After the commission, he went on to play other key roles, including …
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… provided to the workers, thus they were subject to the wages given by their employer. The workers were looked down … the domestic workers did not want to pay…
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… the VOC did not want to spend its money on the expensive wages that European labourers demanded. Nor could the VOC use … a feudal system of "apprenticeship"…
Address by President T Mbeki at Press Conference following Meeting with President Kikwete of Tanzania, held on 7 April 2006, at Presidential Guesthouse
… we have established - a Presidential Economic Co-operation Commission to look at the matter of the detailed economic … and South Africa, to make sure that we…