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ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… the Mineral Revolution took place in South Africa, cheap labour became widely used (which was advocated by Cecil John Rhodes), which the dominating notion…
Address to the National Council Of Provinces, 11 November 2003
… of the EPWP is a large-scale programme of using labour-intensive methods to upgrade rural and municipal … community production centres and the Departments of…
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
… one name to another or from one place to another. WHITE LABOUR POLICY. -This bug-bear is used to play up to the … cash wages per annum average from f 6 to …
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…
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 …
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 …