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EventTrevor Manuel, Minister in The Presidency: National Planning Commission, is born
… first became involved in politics when he joined the Labour Party Youth in 1969 at the encouragement of his …
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… paralysing the economy of South Africa by withdrawing its labour. The one dominant feature that emerges from these … also a specific working class method …
EventCongo administration is handed to the Belgian government
From the beginning of colonialism in the 1880s following the 'scramble for Africa', Congo had been regarded as King Leopold II's personal fiefdom. Leopold's…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.4 Jul-Sept 1959
… Denis Grundy. Natives No Longer Kill Twins, Colin Leys. Labour and Central Africa, Barbara Castle, M.P. Cartoon, …
EventTito Mboweni, former Governor of the SA Reserve Bank, is born in Tzaneen
… of East Anglia. Mboweni was appointed Minister of Labour in 1994 in Nelson Mandela’s cabinet. In 1998, he …
EventThe first OK Bazaars opens on the corner of Eloff and President Street in Johannesburg
… opened 100 stores. OK Bazaars also played a role in the labour history of South Africa, as the establishment of this …
EventValliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar, SA political activist dies from a fever
… They were arrested and sentenced to three months of hard labour at the Pietermaritzburg prison. Mudaliar fell ill …
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… people attended his funeral. On the day of his funeral his labour organisation called on all workers to stay away from …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… Campaign of the Indian organisations, strikes by the labour movement, mass action by the Communist Party of South …
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… of taxation in accordance with the above. Revision of the labour legislation and its application to the mines and …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… unions, the Communist Party and sections of the British Labour Party. After the banning of the ANC in 1960 and the … stay-at-home. It is estimated that more…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… This demanded an ever-increasing supply of cheap Black labour for the mines, the farms, the towns. In other words, African labour was to be exploited in…
EventJournalists' first visit to Robben Island
… in the early years, extremely bad. Prisoners had to labour in the quarry, were not dressed sufficiently and had …
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
… devoted principally to neutralising and correcting white labour chauvinism (or, occasionally, native "chauvinism"). … strikes. We are also combating and…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign Introduction ↵ An acute labour shortage forced White settlers in Natal to plead to … in the alliance between the white petit…
Document 16 - F. W. de Klerk’s speech at the opening of Parliament
… Draft Discussion Document COSATU Congress `99 continued labour market transformation and programmes to see to the implementation of new labour legislation,…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… Act of 1954 used by the Eisenhower administration against labour unions. By that time however, the McCarthy repression … measures (among them the Population…
Robben Island
… removal of the penal colony to the mainland where convict labour could be used more productively on government …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… Party headed by General Hertzog and the South African Labour Party took away their right of the African voters in …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… only 10% of the Indian voters cast their votes. Women and labour issues: The trade unions in the 1970s In the 1960s the …
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… us. Any sphere of employment other than ill-paid unskilled labour is being closed to us. Every means of legitimate …
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… Plan which grants the military new powers over the labour force, armaments production and the distribution of … https://www.firstworldwar.com/timeline/index…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… 1902 William H. Andrews helps found the first Trades and Labour Council in South Africa. 1905 Moses Mauane Kotane is … H. Andrews becomes the first chairman…
EventWaaihoek women embark on anti-pass passive resistance campaign
… for women as they were the main providers of domestic labour. Many Black women had come to Bloemfontein as it was …
EventWW2: British 8th army marches into Tripoli
… ultimately denying the Allies access to the reserves of labour and raw materials in the North African/ Middle Eastern …
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… also resulted in the arrest of most of the leaders of the labour unions in and around Soweto. …
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… in the early years, extremely bad. Prisoners had to labour in the quarry, were not dressed sufficiently and had …
The diary of Maria Tholo - Epilogue by Carol Hermer
… commissions recommended major changes in the labour and pass law legislation affecting blacks, but when … regular but illegal employment was declared. When…
National General Council 2005: Consolidated Report on Sectoral Strategies, 3 July 2005
… in the 'first economy' to restructure towards more labour absorbing growth. We must also specifically address … Seek to promote sectors that are likely to…
The Battle of Square Hill
Participation as combatants in the First World War was reserved for men of “European descent”. [i] According to Article 7 of the South African Defence Force…