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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…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… in the 1980's meant fighting a state-controlled migrant labour system, archaic and racially based collective … from the Struggle. Indeed, the political role…
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… (European and Coloured) from the South African Trades & Labour Council and the Furniture and Garment Worker's Unions …
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… the white workers to adopt the principle of solidarity of labour irrespective of colour or race the spectre of racial …
EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… the Cape Colony. Further reading list: A history of prison labour in South Africa Indenture: A new system of slavery? …
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… Cause'. Samuel Alfred (Taffy) Long, heralded by subsequent labour histories as one of South Africa's greatest …
EventFighting breaks out on the Johannesburg market square
… them with stones. In the period of 1910 to 1914 organised labour began to find its feet in the Union. The first trade …
Black ViewPoint - Black Development by Njabulo Ndebele
… does not value. Indeed, he does not even value their labour, as such, for he accepts their labour as much as he accepts the fact of breathing. You only ……
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… brewing was carried out with only rudimentary division of labour and limited Specialisation, Induction into work … he had an assured and easily defined…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… occurs at a time when the whole continent of Afrika is in labour, suffering the pangs of a new birth, and everybody is … 1945; The Torch, 18 August 1950; S…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 2 - The Development of a Colonial Slave Society by Wayne Dooling
… producers, they would need access to large amounts of labour. The indigenous peoples with whom the Dutch first came … years before the Dutch arrived; they…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… forms a government without the aid of the South African Labour Party. 16 December, A protest march, organised jointly …
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… ship. The station also began to experience a chronic labour shortage and because the Khoisan were seen as …
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… as it focused on criticizing the exploitation of African labour, the imposition of pass laws on women and work …
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… pressures and volatile commodity prices. Additionally, labour costs in the mining sector account for 45% to 50% of …
ArticleIndian South Africans
… November 1860 and 1911 (when the system of indentured labour was stopped) nearly 152 184 indentured labourers from …
Address by Deputy President Thabo MBeki at the Conference on Infrastructure Investment, 28-29 March 1996
… investor community, together with representatives from labour and the civic sector, to agree on a framework for … sector have taken place on a broad range of…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… of indigenous societies) the development of the migrant labour system, these prescriptions on the role of women, as … in laundry to provide extra income…
GANDHI THE PRISONER
… and the fourth, on November 11, 1913 to nine months hard labour. He actually served seven months and ten days of those … on bail. Gandhi's first imprisonment…
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… the other hand, the United Party polled 515,373 votes, the Labour Party 32,164 votes and the Independents, who were … policy to increase their numbers. The…
PlaceTolstoy Farm, near Johannesburg
… family. They worked hard and shared the fruits of their labour! At present, all that is left of Tolstoy Farm, on land …
PlaceLand Claims Court of South Africa, Randburg
… deals with the Extension of Security Tenure Act and the Labour Tenants Act. These two acts were enacted by Parliament …
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… and Africans. Rather than serving as a source of human labour, the Cape was the recipient of enslaved people from … have been necessary to remember the ways…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the South African Chamber of Business Banquet Johannesburg, 30 August 1994
… meeting ground between ourselves, the private sector and labour to ensure a fruitful interface. All government … trade and industry, reconstruction and…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… black and white and, to a lesser extent, property and labour, as most of the actors in the suffrage movement … which greater numbers of women were being…
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… in New Brighton, the building of the New Brighton Labour Bureau and offices of the Bantu Administration Board …
PlacePampierstad
… from elsewhere and the other was to create a pool of labour to serve South African industry and farms. Its …
POLICY AND POLITICAL PROCESSES TOWARDS 51ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Parktown, 13 August 2002
… include the acquisition of land for farm workers and labour tenants, land to municipalities for the establishment … payments, lower interest rates and…
A New Era for Africa in a Globalizing World, Unesco, Paris, 19 November 2003
… especially sub-Saharan Africa, as a source of cheap labour and raw materials. Necessarily, this has meant the … period of slavery constituted a massive…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… African masses: namely, to be taught the virtue of regular manual labour and the paying of their taxes. The virtues of … of the African through migrancy and…