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PlaceQuaqua
… men had to leave their homes to become part of the migrant labour force . The country's main income came from these … https://www.fact-index.com/q/qw/qwaqwa…
EventWalter Sisulu arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act
… were sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour. Although banning orders prevented him from attending …
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… the Knesset (Israeli parliament) in 1959. A member of the Labour Party, he held various cabinet positions before …
EventBeginning of the Waterberg Battle in the Herero Revolt
… from local groups such as the Herero. A system of forced labour was also introduced, which resulted in strained …
A growing urban African population
… As Johannesburg expanded, so did its need for African labour. After the First World War, a large number of …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa
… sexual violence; high mobility (particularly migrant labour); limited and uneven access to quality medical care; a …
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… and cultivated nutmeg as a monoculture, using slave labour from neighbouring countries. The VOC monopoly of the …
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… and sentenced to nine month’s imprisonment with hard labour, but this was suspended for two years. In Port …
ArchiveMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
… did find that Lonmin's failure to fulfil its social and labour plans — legally binding obligations on which its new … units for its employees in fulfilment…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… these discussions. British wanted investments protected, labour supplies assured, and agreed on the fundamental … were educated or not from participating in…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… a self -professed Nazi supporter who concentrated on the labour movement, especially the Afrikaans-speaking miners on … it entered into an electoral pact…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… 3 Sillwood Street. While in England, Mbeki supported the Labour Party, then-led by Harold Wilson. Mbeki was intensely …
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… BAMCU and Azapo launched an Anti-Asbestos Campaign after labour unrest following layoffs of 1700 union members from an …
PlaceBoskop Village, Nature Reserve and Dam- near Potchefstroom
Boskop Dam and Nature Reserve is located in the Mooi River Valley 20 km North of the Town of Potchefstroom a short distance from the R501 Carletonville Road…
Belonging - A History of Indian South Africans
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Across oceans and centuries, this sweeping narrative shuttles between the corridors of the Colonial Office in London, the contested…
PlaceSlanghoek Cellar, Western Cape
… are invited to experience the fruits of the winemakers’ labour and true Boland hospitality in the beautiful Slanghoek …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… African goods are being implemented in many countries. Labour organisations refuse to service South African cargoes … general strike. It is reported that…
Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native Question (Majority) (1934)
… degree, in industry generally. Almost all the productive labour on the farms is performed by the agricultural Native … in South Africa. The productive part…
”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A National Struggle.”flyer issued by the ANC Youth League, August 1946
… structure of South Africa. Huge profits from cheap Native Labour are misappropriated by the whites and applied to the …
EventMilitary coup is executed in Lesotho
… of addressing the demands. Soldiers supporting the labour action then surrounded his residence, and he was …
EventThe Angolan-Namibian peace plan is accepted
… (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Party of Labour) and anti-communist UNITA (National Union for the …
PlaceAlexandra, Township in Johannesburg
… running of Alexandra Township. (For a social history of Labour and some Johannesburg townships, including Alexandra, …
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… and cotton were cultivated and this required intensive labour in the form of slaves. The system of slavery on this …
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… in the field of popular music and culture. South African Labour History - The South African Labour History Project aims to collect and document material…
Document 139 - “The coming Anti-African Bill”. Workers’ Voice.6.2. December 1947
… higher wages and better jobs through the notorious white labour policy, and in general receive preferential treatment … any longer the luxury of inflated…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at Waseda University Tokyo, 4 July 1995
… are bodies which bring together employers, government, labour and other role-players. We are not, as a country, … immune to the vicissitudes of occasionally…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1652 - 1699 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… High Court of Justice in Batavia to banishment and hard labour for life. Their crime: preaching insurrection in … against the indigenous people, and also to…
Cosatu march: For Who, for What? by Simelane and Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 8 October 2015
… stops at the premier's office, provincial department of labour, Bank City, and the Chamber of Mines. Members from the … week before. She was there to fight…
PlaceSedgefield
… passes still exist today, many of them built with prison labour . These prisoners workmanship, without mechanisation …
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… was held in Durban to propose the introduction of Indian labour. 1852 13 August, The first steamship to sail into … Natal Indian Congress. A critical…