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EventJohannesburg Magistrate court is bombed
… were granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1998 for the attack. The Commission received submissions testifying to the deaths of…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… This short history of Electrical Supply Commission (ESKOM) aims to provide an overview of the history … The need to reduce the cost of electricity saw the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 The Act also repealed the…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…
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… until repealed following recommendations by the Wiehan Commission at the end of the 1970s. 1960-1973 Labour … Revolt and other forms of protest. 1985 With…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…
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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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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"…
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:…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… trade union rights for Black people and fought for better wages and working conditions. In 1974, six more PP members …
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…