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Document 4 - “The Great Native Strike”, “ The International, 27 February 1920
… of Basuto, Zulu, or Shangaan. You are all labourers'. Let labour be your common bond. The native mine workers have …
Former South African President P W De Klerk’s Manifesto for the New South Africa
… Africa in which: All people shall be free to sell their labour and market their products; The ownership of property …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… of the stone at Robben Island where he had done hard labour breaking rocks. July, South African National Defence … of South Africa Trade Union (Cosatu) where…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… and are sentenced to nine months imprisonment with hard labour, which is suspended for three years. Kathrada is … June, Kathrada is sentenced to life…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… in their organisations. In the 1920s the South African Labour Party had a youth wing, called the South African Labour League of Youth. Its members included…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… a BC initiative, received funding from the AFL-CIO, the US labour organisation, and BAWU secretary general Drake Koka … from British politicians, especially…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… The decimation of the Khoi-Khoi results in an acute labour shortage. Tracts of land become "ownerless". Colonial … and children being taken captive and…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… of the dop system range from less than 2% to 20% of labour payments in the Western Cape (London). Even after the … Afrikaner farms to control these men and…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… and industrial sectors which preferred to locate their labour sources close to the harbour and the inner city area. …
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… to oppose the measures. Many were mobilised against the Labour Party, poised to take part in the envisaged …
ArticleEarly African Civilisations: Ancient Egypt, Nubia and Swahili
… the food cultivated by a favourable climate and forced labour, the Pharaohs financed huge pyramids that would …
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… operations became mechanized, farmers’ demand for labour decreased substantially, forcing those not gainfully …
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
… rewards. As D.D.T. Jabavu concluded in 1920, ‘the Native Labour Contingent … has imported into this country a new …
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… by using its most powerful weapon, the withdrawal of its labour power, on numerous occasions to prevent the exploiters … colonialism. Many of the peasants…
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
… a Constitution with a Bill of Rights, which incorporates labour rights as well as freedom of association and … Clause 23 states that everyone has the right…
Address delivered by the Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, at the National Union of Mineworkers National Congress, 24 May 2006
… the vision of the union itself, the general state of the labour movement in our country, and definitely will chart a … the South African Communist Party and…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… by using its most powerful weapon, the withdrawal of its labour power, on numerous occasions to prevent the exploiters … colonialism. Many of the peasants…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… even faster. More young people have been entering the labour market each year. More women are entering the … and our production costs are too high to be…
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… of SANCO present, Representatives of international labour organisations, Members of the diplomatic corps and … situation, which requires the undivided…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 1) by Thabo Mbeki, 21 March, 2016
… incentives to stimulate new investment in competitive and labour absorbing projects; • speeding up the restructuring of … submissive, frugal, industrious,…
Address to the Opening of South Africa Day CEO Conference, London (via video link-up), 21 November 2002
… is the extraordinary improvement we have seen in labour productivity. Labour productivity has improved by over 4 percent per annum … visit us. Do your…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… him from the competition with coloured, African and Indian labour, finds that as an unskilled worker he has to compete with the cheaper labour of his non…
Chapter 11 - Negotiating the final constitution
… by interest groups, partiÂcularly by business and labour. Over 15 and 16 April, representatives of the South … to go to a deadlock on this matter. On the…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… the British-owned mines greater access to cheaper labour and the ability to transport their goods to harbours … to such an extent that they became no more…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… Raboroko Secretary for Culture Nana Mahomo Secretary for Labour Jacob D Nyaose Secretary for Finance and Economic … Cape. 19 March, Mike Muendane, the PAC…
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
… lines where the men could provide a ready supply of local labour. Work was however paid, and it was via this economy … understand what these camps were, the…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 19 February 2015
… Members, I had mentioned in the SONA that some new labour laws or amendments were coming into effect this year. … for more than 10 or 20 years, and being…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… worker rights were still severely limited under apartheid labour laws. For example, it was very difficult to have a … If you do want to go into politics…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… worker rights were still severely limited under apartheid labour laws. For example, it was very difficult to have a … If you do want to go into politics…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Early Writings
… agricultural work. Some educated people disparage manual labour; they say it is too inferior for them; they appreciate … they leave school. The conception of…