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Pretoria the Segregated city
… in towns close to their workplace. It discouraged migrant labour and encouraged the idea of planned and carefully … Therefore, the attempt to deliver a…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… The need for a controlled labour force: Indentured Labourers There is an indentured labour gallery on the SAHO site, webteam please select an … November 1860…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… Martindale and Newclare). In 1923, the South African Labour Party (SALP) and the South African National Party … conscripted into the army, creating a…
ArticleHigh Farce in the House
… demonstrate their rejection) of the Group Areas Act, the Labour Party opposed the application by an Indian person to …
Prominent South Africans Indians
… and we welcome contributions from the public. Politics and Labour Adam, Feroza Asmal, Kader Asmal, Mohamed Asvat, Abu …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… the CPSA in 1921 was a turning point in the development of labour politics in South Africa. The organised labour movement until the 1920s consisted mainly,…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… races were still virtually restricted to the home, migrant labour had already begun to forge differences between the … tried to bully the women to comply…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… into poverty and pushed into become a souce of cheap labour for the new capatilist state and in particular for the …
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… 1920s, with Afrikaner women workers beginning to enter the labour market it appears that the WEAU was accorded more …
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… and soldiers, were insufficient to perform all the manual labour required to build and maintain the settlement. The local Khoi people were unwilling to…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Act hit unions hard. Black workers left the Trades & Labour Council to join the Trade Union Council of South … The summit resolved to work towards a new, all…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… were vexed with the question of African land tenure and labour since the 1880s. In 1892 a Commission was appointed to … would force the surplus or excess…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… between the British and Dutch settlers was the issue of labour. With the end of slavery in 1870, the British had … the indigenous South African population as…
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… make-up of southern Africa was the creation of a migrant labour system from the 1870s onwards. Provisions for the … enterprises in the Colony. The resultant…
English Settlement in South Africa
… by the Children’s Friend Society to work as indentured labour for local British employees. They were brought to rid … of British workers were brought to the…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… Communist Party (SACP), Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), Labour Party, the Inyandza National Movement, the Transvaal … Zach De Beer (DP), Pravin Gordhan ,…
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… the peasants for their loyalty during the Revolution. Labour conditions were improved with working hours limited to … of food, fuel, raw materials for…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… to form one trade union called South African Trades and Labour Council (SATLC), popularly known as the Trade and Labour Council. In 1944 SATLC adopted the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… Proclamation" to regulate the use of Khoi-San and coloured labour to satisfy the labour needs of white farmers. This entails the curtailment … coloured…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… deprivation of Africans' right to own land. Land, Labour and Apartheid Several hundred members of South … unions. Organisation of the working class,…
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… a growing number of settlers, the demand for more land and labour increased tensions between colonial authorities and … Kinjigitile Ngwale in 1905. The…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… massive deprivation of Africans’ right to own land. Land, Labour and Apartheid Several hundred members of South … unions. Organisation of the working class,…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… and adequately to concerns that had led to intermittent labour and civic unrest that erupted in the aftermath of … escalated, becoming more frequent and…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… it sat with an embarrassing use of their consulate. The Labour opposition in the British Parliament watched Margaret … ANC and Revolutionary Alliance. All…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… last President of the OFS dies in Bloemfontein. 1917 Labour organiser, Henry Selby Msimang, leads a strike of … The ICU was originally established as a Cape…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… it occupies an important place in the history of Black labour. Not only was it the first black trade union movement, … was the introduction of a Wage Board,…
ArticleThe Constitution
… their informed consent. Slavery, servitude and forced labour No one may be subjected to slavery, servitude or forced labour... read on …
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… Officer also played the role of the Sanitary Inspector. Labour: shockingly, the Commission emphasised only two cases … Another group of Colonists demanded…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… families and locked into a chain of guarded, high-walled labour camps. These are not the casualty figures for a major … No monument has yet been built to…