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… leaders in response to student protests. The South African Union of Students (SAUS), which represents most student … 2009, the National Health Education & Allied Workers Union (Nehawu) and the National Union of Tertiary Employees of South Africa (Nutesa) begin a …

… in all urban sectors took place and the scope for trade union organisation increased. By 1945, 45 percent of the 20 … demonstrated by the formation of the Non-European Trade Union Council. This council was formed when the Non-European Trade Union Coordinating Committee and its rival body, the Joint …

… on Solly Sachs, an official of the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa (GWU). The first notice ordered Sachs to relinquish his position in the Union within thirty days and not to participate in any way in the activities of the union. The second order restricted his movements to the …

… Sir Benegal Rama Rau, declares its support for the Union Government war effort, but demands that there should be … Dr. A.B. Xuma in Inkululeko . The African Mine Workers' Union is formed. The ANC congress resolves to review its … Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa" and Bill of Rights documents. Click …

… the population census. 1938 Finds employment at Union Bank of South Africa as a marketing agent, persuading … former secretary of the Indian High Commissioner in the Union, visit Basutoland. They have discussions there with … headmen about the inauguration of the Protectorate by the Union. 1952 Sisulu travels through the country to organise …

… between Black student organizations and the national Union of South African Students (NUSAS) by developing a … itself in a number of community campaigns and trade union support campaigns. They involved themselves in …

… and Mozambique, and later to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. They returned in the later 1970s as trained cadres of … of Western Cape pledged their support for striking union workers of food manufacturer Fattis and Monis. The …

… by the Johannesburg Art Foundation (JAF), The Federated Union of Black Arts (FUBA) and FUNDA community college in …

… the Worker's College in 1995, which is still being used at union meetings and conferences. In 1998 he took part in the …

… taken place between us. During the recent period our trade union committee has held a series of factory gate meetings at … were represented, was held in June, and a new African union formed, the last union having disintegrated after the expulsion of its crooked …

… So they were, in a sense, the beginning of today’s union movement,  Second, while many histories see the 1976 … meant to hamper strikes and political activity, the new union movement became a centre of militancy which soon joined … era was waged in townships and shack settlements, the union movement was a key source of support to the fight for …

… still lives in people's minds with the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa. It is no accident that the two are … person must go the credit for building the only trade union in the history of South Africa whose members enjoy a … is still a little doubt that he would still be leading the union in its fight against injustice and in defence of its …

… African Students (COSAS) decided to suspend the boycott. Union activity was also sharply stepped up. In July 1980, … and secretary of the unrecognised Black Municipal Workers Union. Both were charged under the Sabotage Act. Bombing … with the newly established Congress of COSATU, the trade union federation, in 1986, and by the time the UDF was …

… Committee to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, … various aspects of the political role of the National Union. These include exposing the role of the apartheid … of this movement.The report analyses the success of the Union in politicising, mobilising and organising in order to …

… ‘a fit of absent-mindedness’. Its solution was to create a union or federations along the lines of the recently … in September 1909 as the South Africa Act. On 31 May 1910 the Union of South Africa was born. Like so many other imperial …

… equal electoral rights between white and black. On 31 May 1910 the Union of South Africa was formed by combining the Cape … established. This marked the beginning of the modern trade union movement in South Africa. 1975 After the revolution …

… Conference When the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) was formed in Cape Town in 1909 there was much … appealed to many Zulu workers. Yet by the end of 1927 the union’s popularity started to wane as the leader, AWG … of Trade Unions (Sactu) organised militant workers. The union realised that worker struggles are linked to political …

… between the European and non-European races of the Union. The Act further vested the Minister of Justice with … and was precluded from occupying an office in any trade union or political organisation. He was also prohibited from … The primary objective of the Act was to separate the trade union movements along racial lines, with the aim of weakening …

… density of 16 to an acre. The voting qualifications were: Union nationality; aged twenty-one and over (males); standard … "a crisis comparable to those of the constitution of the Union and of the Natives Land Act (1913)". If the ANC had … by the two governments in 1938, and on 2 May informed the Union Government of its intention to recall its High …

… the Congress of South African Students and the National Union of South African Students. Presented at the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, … The report discusses the contribution of the National Union of South African Students to the campaign, the nature …

… as Al-Shabaab originally emerged from the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) movement in Somalia . The ICU began as a loose … the radical, hard-line youth faction within the ICU. The Union of Courts reached the peak of its influence after the … and Burundian peacekeepers, deployed under the African Union Mission to Somalia (AIMSOM). AIMSOM forces were mostly …

… of all discriminatory and oppressive legislation from the Union's statute book. This Joint Meeting is therefore of the … launched and that every effort be made to compel the Union government to implement the United Nations decisions … then to China, and afterwards to Japan and the Soviet Union for their spiritual home. I say this deliberately and …

… of hostility between the European inhabitants of the Union on the one hand and any other section of the inhabitants of the Union on the other hand' (Dugard 1978: 177). Commenced: 21 … Indian Congress , the Native Voters Association, the Bantu Union and religious and welfare societies from all over …

… in 1994, the province of Natal, which had existed between 1910 and 1994, was renamed KwaZulu-Natal . Just north of the …

… Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain sign a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, … Discussions between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning a ban on nuclear testing began in the … but the downing of an American spy plane over the Soviet Union in May brought negotiations to an end. The Cuban …

… Report of the Head Office of the National Union of South African Students to the Annual Congress of the National Union, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2-7 Dec 1984. … community and in political involvement, in particular the Union's role in the United Democratic Front and the End …

… The story of the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa epitomizes the history of South Africa … a prominent part in the life and activities of the union. The epic story of the hundred thousand women and … and non-Europeans table. The story of the Garment Workers' Union holds out some hope and inspires a measure of …

… that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the agenda of second … of the United Nations did not support the request of the Union of South Africa that the Indian complaint be removed … its agenda an item entitled: "Treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa". It rejected South Africa's contention …

… South African history was that the incipient African trade union movement that existed only in embryonic form at the … temporary mass action of workers into a permanent trade union movement that became very powerful. They eventually … gains. As Halton Cheadle, organiser of the textile union at the time, said, ‘We were just going factory by …