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ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… and Natal since 1 January 1927. 1 June, The Native Labour Corp, one of many native military units established … such as pass laws, poll tax, segregation and…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… was a considerable emphasis on maximum production and labour-saving techniques. By the end of the war South Africa … The war years saw significant changes as…
PlaceCentral African Republic
… Unable to cultivate their own fields because of the labour demands from European companies, they experienced food … the French also used the Central Africans…
ArchiveA Speech to Displease All Parties by Imraan Coovadia, 11 October 2021
… working people and renders them incapable of constructive labour. No country in the world has a population which is … life because there through lay my own…
EventANC flag raised at the funeral of John ‘Hennie’ Ferus
… Ferus, who was 41, was also a member of the moderate Labour Party, whose leader, the Reverend Allen Hendrickse, …
EventCosatu and TAC table a National HIV/AIDS plan
… treatment plan in the National Economic, Development and Labour Council (Nedlac). This was intended to allow Cosatu to …
EventSir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape, dies in London
… conscripting the native population into a system of wage labour and pacifying rebellion. Sir Harry was also well known …
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
CHICAGO — Rarely are poets silenced when nations imprison them for speaking out. Mongane Wally Serote, poet and community organizer who became involved in the…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 2) by Thabo Mbeki, 28 March, 2016
… expansion. While low demand and the absence of skilled labour had been cited as some of the reasons in recent years, … in which once again, he calls for a…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… the nature of housing and shows how it was related to the labour needs of the employers on the Rand. Housing in Towns … described in Early Domestic Workers …
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… buy"; but by which we definitely demand the ending of all labour segregation, a free right to seek work, to acquire … opportunity, equal pay for equal work,…
PlaceEzakheni Township of Ladysmith
… 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…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… where they could sell their only remaining asset - their labour. Within the relatively short space of six or seven … reality, so South Africa spawned its own…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… was trade and the search for new markets. The need for labour to sustain trade created a massive international slave … centuries in order to satisfy the…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… of South Africa's black population as a source of cheap labour. At the same time the Nationalist Government had begun … their annual leave. The adverse…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… Congress of Trade Unions, the precursor to the giant labour federation COSATU. He referred to the African National … sojourners in these cities, fitted only…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… the establishment of these schools is the need for cheap labour. Children learn to read and write, but critically, and … but in reality, reservoirs for the…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… farms. Studies on the struggles of sharecropping and labour tenant African communities on white commercial farms … the chief, and it stated that no Africans…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… on a railway line to Graskop in the northwest, using White labour. 1912 2 September, a health committee is established … forced removals policy. Situated…
EventRhodes statue removed at UCT
… the subjugation of Black people for the provision of cheap labour. The debate around the statue’s place on campus …
ArchiveBlack Sash / Sash
… and poverty. Issues such as the Pass Laws, migrant labour, forced removals, indefinite detention without trial, …
EventDetectives testify against members of the ANC and the Congress Alliance in the infamous Treason Trial
… organisations, some of the accused were members of labour movements, notably the South African Council of Trade …
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… sentence was mitigated to 10 years imprisonment with hard labour, of which he served four and a half years before he …
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
… FIFTH POINT - ECONOMIC COLLABORATION AND IMPROVED LABOUR STANDARDS. "They desire to bring about the fullest … field with the object of securing for all…
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
… progress. Fifth Point-Economic Collaboration and Improved Labour Standards. "They -d esire to bring about the fullest … field with the object of securing for…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - … constituted a few exceptions to the rule in South African labour history, and there lies…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… First’s The Mozambican Miner: a Study in the Export of Labour is published. 1982 13 August, First delivers a speech …
ArticlePoverty and development
… where the minimum wage law as set by the Department of Labour is still sometimes ignored. The South African Human …
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… then head of the Department of Economics and South African Labour and Development Research Unit at the University of …
Statement of Acceptance of the Ho Chi Minh Award Bestowed on the ANC by the World Peace Council by O. R. Tambo, Luanda, 15 December 1986
… Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Party of Labour (MPLA-PL) who were the earlier recipients of this … and government under the leadership of…