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ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: Impact on the Indian Working class: the Growth of Indian trade unions
… 1983: 116). In March 1917, the Indian Workers Industrial Union was established with Bernard Sigamoney as secretary and … Socialist League. In the same year…
Abbreviations - Missionary settlement in southern Africa
… Church of the Nazarene (USA) CUSA : Congregational Union Church Aid and Missionary Society of South Africa … Church in Scotland FBS : Scandinavian…
ArticleTswana
… Colony, Afrikaner republics, and British territories. In 1910, when the Cape, Transvaal and British Bechuanaland were incorporated into the Union of South…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… the way free for land to be parcelled out to buyers. 1910 The various colonies and Boer republics are drawn together into a single political entity, the…
ArticleKasturba Gandhi timeline 1869 - 1944
… Gulab Vohra. Kasturba and M.K Gandhi are informed of the union after the wedding. June 2, The Gandhi family moves to … leaves for London to discuss the…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… These mine workers belong to a newly formed trade union, Association of Mines and Construction Union (AMCU) under the leadership of Joseph Mathunjwa . The ……
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… 1870 William H. Andrews (Bill), a pioneer of the trade union movement and first General Secretary of the Communist … the future leader of the Industrial and…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… two of the world’s major superpowers, the USA and Soviet Union, threatened each other with the use of nuclear weapons, … War II in Europe Although relations…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… White workers and African against Indian workers, making union mobilization impossible. An example of this was the … and Labour Council organizing the Durban…
ArticleThe effects of WW2 in Africa
… the Igbo people of Nigeria, colonial rule was achieved in 1910 shortly before the First World War in 1914. Colonial …
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… Gazette) set up in 1901 and Tsala ea Batho which began in 1910 and were both established by Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje , …
ArticleIndian South Africans
… free to remain in South Africa or to return to India. By 1910, nearly 26.85% indentured men returned to India, but …
ArticleThe South African general elections: Introduction
… Natal, Cape, Transvaal and the Orange Free State into the Union of South Africa. The Act, which served as the Union's constitution until 1961, created a…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
… for the rest of the 20th century. The communist Soviet Union we now remember was the product of Stalin, although it … era. Stalin rose to power as the leader…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
… them with some restrictions and mandate they register the union with the state (South Africa History Online). … multi-racial unions. The Garment Workers…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… Upon his return, on 24 August, Farewell hoisted the Union Jack and formally took possession of the land in the … Building was completed of Durban’s first…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
… support for the defence of the British Empire. The Union government was asked to send an army to conquer … fled to German South West Africa. The…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is established as national Black trade union in Bloemfontein. 11 September, Gerrit…
The International Socialist League (ISL)
… Socialist League and Clothing Workers Industrial Union Image source Notwithstanding the fact that the … the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA) - the first…
ArticleMarikana Massacre - 16 August 2012
… strike action undertaken by unionised workers without the union-leadership's authorisation, support, or approval. On 9 … large group of the striking miners…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
On 15 May 2004 in Zurich, Switzerland, Joseph (Sepp) Blatter, president of FIFA, world soccer's governing body, made an historic announcement: South Africa…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… parents 'to breed the blackness out of them'. Between 1910 and 1970 up to 100,000 Aboriginal children were taken …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Strijdom 28 May 1957 The Honourable the Prime Minister, Union of South Africa, House of Assembly CAPE TOWN Honourable … it my duty as leader of the African…
Imvaba Arts Association
… of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA). The … 1988, the first exhibition of Imvaba was held at…
Article1946 Mine Workers Strike timeline 1867-1987
… 214 1941 African workers formed the African Mine Workers Union 1943 In order to stave off the growing unrest among the … Nine men were killed, and seventy…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… articles on South Africa’s growing independent trade union movement. By working with different and mutually … (COSATU) as they believed in the need for a…
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… Bay industrial areas. April, The Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) is established and launched in Pietermaritzburg … are killed and 38 are wounded…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… (FOSATU) in 1979. FOSATU was the first South African trade union federation that organised mostly Black employees that … umbrella organisation that could…
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
… Affairs of TANU, Mr J J Nambuta of NUTA, Tanzania`s Trade Union Federation, Amadou N`diaye, Secretary of the All African Trade Union Federation and…
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
… of workers against exploitation. The emergence of trade union activity in the country and subsequent protests against … In response to a call made by the…