SAHO global search
3,898 records
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…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
… by a recommendation to the members of the Garment Workers' Union not to associate with the African May Day Committee, … the failure to participate with 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…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… with this came the development of a progressive trade union movement, and during the 1950s Port Elizabeth became …
ArticleProgressive Federal Party (PFP)
… Group Areas and forced removals. She demanded trade union rights for black people and fought for better wages and …
ArticleFrontline States
… tied to South Africa by the Southern African Custom Union, which was responsible for the collection and …
ArticleJames Sebe Moroka Timeline 1892 - 2012
… Jacob Zuma on National Freedom Day celebrations at the Union buildings in Pretoria. …
General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)
… The GFWBF consisted of activists from different trade union and political backgrounds, SACTU unionists, student …
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… revealed that the massive launch of the United Workers Union of South Africa in Durban to counter the hugely popular …
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… his studies to join the budding group within the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) that would break away …
ArchiveSarmcol: the biggest campaign ever
… The Metal and Allied Workers Union's B T R Sarmcol campaign is by far the largest campaign … over a single factory ever undertaken by an independent union in…
ArchivePremier tussles with SFAWU
… The Sweet Food and Allied Workers Union has accused the Premier Group of shifting production from one factory to another in order to crush union organisation…
EventCurnick Ndlovu, Trade Unionist, is arrested.
… we Sizwe (MK). He was also actively involved in trade union movements and eventually became an active organizer of the South African Railways and Harbour…
ArchiveNUSAS Press Release
… release regarding developments and plans for the National Union of South African Students and a confirmation of a special congress to complete the…
Debating Lineages of Socialism in Africa Webinars
… Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Hosted by University of the Free State. Converor: …
Presidents address to the 51st NUSAS Congres
… Address by the President of the National Union of South African Students to the 51st Congress of the National Union, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 8…
ArchiveTransport workers flock in
… workers are flocking to the Transport and General Workers Union and in the past four months the union has won a majority at eight new Transvaal companies. …
PlaceMooivallei, Dairy Farm
… increased it developed into the town of Bonnievale. In 1910 Rigg handed the tunnel and canal system to the local …
ArchiveHead Office Reports: Report of General Secretary to NSA - 56th NUSAS Congress 1978
… Report from the Head Office of the National Union of South African Students to the 56th Annual Congress of the National Union, University of Cape Town,…
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
… years shows what a bluff Trusteeship is. The very Act of Union 2 itself established as a legal right the claim of the … the African as a citizen of the then…
ArchiveSeven unions take first step towards new federation
… The first steps towards uniting. the progressive trade union movement were taken at a unity summit in Cape Town when seven union groupings committed…
Address by Oliver Tambo on receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, 09 May 1986, New Delhi
… of the people of South Africa by the British Government in 1910. That constitution, as racist today as it was then, … destruction of human life and national…
"We are of the World and the World is with Us": Address on Receiving the Degree of Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa from the Jawaharlal Nehru University by O. R. Tambo , New Delhi, 9 May 1986
… of the people of South Africa by the British Government in 1910. That constitution, as racist today as it was then, … destruction of human life and national…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… One of the questions I asked was, “Why did you join the union?” I expected them to say “wages” and “benefits” because … that workers gave as the dominant…
ArchiveCongress warns Rembrandt
… FOSATU has condemned the Henkel company's anti-union policies and actions and has given its full support to … Henkel products called by the Chemical Workers…
An interview with Mr. A.W.G. Champion
… Trapido : Would you say that the ICU was primarily a trade union organisation, or do you think it was a political … of thinking, it was, in terms of its…
Document 46 - D. Tloome, “The Origin and Development of Non-European Trade Unions”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 27 February 1953, Viewpoints and Perspectives. L 1,21 February 1953
… my opinion, this is due to the fact that the entire trade union movement has failed to come out as a militant movement … Council of the Wage Board. The fact…
Document 69 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937
… Dear Comrade, The strike of the African Metal Workers Union has been defeated with considerable loss to the Union in so far as we receive an initial setback…
ArchiveAssessment report of NUSED to the 49th Congress of NUSAS, Rhodes University, November 30 to December 3, 1972
… Report from the National Union of Students Education Department to the 49th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Rhodes…