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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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …