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EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
… Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain sign a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, … Discussions between the United States and the…
ArchiveNUSAS Congress 1984: Head Office report
… 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…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
Colonial settlement Land wars The 'Frontier Wars' in the Eastern Cape Europeans who came to stay in South Africa first settled in and around Cape Town. As…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… two colleagues travel to East London, where they board a Union Castle steamer bound for the United States of America … an annual event. 1932 Xuma’s book,…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… 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…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… [i] Booklet: Summary of the Group Areas Act 1950 (Union of South Africa) p.5. ‘focal points of contact should … ↵ [ii] Booklet: Summary of the Group Areas…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… League (ANCWL) in 1950, and the women's march to the Union Buildings in August 1956 , which is now commemorated … was it in Sharpeville as opposed to…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… years. Reunert led the drive to establish what became the Union Observatory and a Telescope, is named for him. Reunert … the guest of the Reunerts when he…
Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… The year 1944 was one of the busiest for the union. In the midst of the trouble, which started in … nervous, told her story to the nine employers and nine…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… (PAC) sympathizing students form the African Students’ Union of South Africa (ASUSA), and those loyal to the … focussing their attention on the multi-racial…
Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Johanna Cornelius came and led to the workers to join the union. When she mentioned that the contribution was 6d. a … week, I decided not to join. I did not…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… the unification of four independent territories into the Union of South Africa. During this war, many African people … that in the event of the adoption of…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
… grew and absorbed other schools, many changes followed. In 1910, the school merged with the Eendracht School. Prefects …
Document 17 - Letter from E. R. Roux to W.G. Ballinger, 19 March 1929
… not. The points on which the C.P. insists are: real trade union organisation; strike action not to be ruled out; and … Pim and company to obtain control of…
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… also changed constantly. Bill No. AB 74/1909 and Act II of 1910 amended Law 25 of 1891. Henceforth, employers with up to … indenture altogether. By 1908 the…
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… friendly, but fond of using bad language. There was no union in existence, as I know, and workers were entirely at … I started working for the African…
Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… standards for the industry as a whole. The efforts of the union to eliminate sweating and underpayment of wages in … enforcement very difficult. The…
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
The clippings collection built up by the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (Saldru) in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town…
EventJan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during South African War, is born
… and Christiaan Beyers, the Commandant-General of the Union Defence Forces, were all opposed to the use of South African forces beyond the Union's borders…
EventMemorial service for the victims of mining disaster
… is disrupted. Angry Black miners blamed General Mining Union Corporation, owner of the mine, for negligence and poor … paid their tribute at a ceremony…
Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… they had asked Johanna Cornelius, then organiser of our union, to help them. During the strike that followed, the … Kampf - one long, foul slander against…
Document 48 - “The Anti-C.A.D. and the Trade Unions”, The Torch, 1 April 1958
… employers. Conference passed two resolutions on the Trade Union question: (1) “This Conference instructs all local … assist in this task". Conference urges…
An Appeal to the people of South West Africa by Nelson Mandela
… am writing to you in the name of the African people of the Union of South Africa, on the authority of the National … attended by 1,500 delegates from town…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
… to the USA to further his studies in Theology at the Union Missionary Seminary in Brooklyn, in New York. August, … Association, today known as the Natal…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… as izibongo -like performances were included at trade-union rallies, political meetings and funerals in affirmation … of solidarity. A number of poems…
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
… legislation over the territory as an integral part of the Union of South Africa, with the aim of promoting the … Windhoek requested unanimously to be…
Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015
… has returned with a vengeance through the European Union’s Troika and the financial might around Merkel. He is … a strike by Marikana miners in 2012, albeit…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… farms. [5] The economy was crippled after the war and the Union of South Africa knew they had to act soon if they … natives themselves.” [6] As a result, the…
ArchiveSouth African trade unionism in an era of racial exclusion
… is an examination of the main tendencies in the trade union movement in South Africa during the currency of the … on providing support for the large sections…
EventThe South African Industrial Federation riot in the Rand Gold mining district
… the South African Industrial Federation (SAIF), a miners union for people socially constructed as 'white', ran riot in … the sector and resulted in the…