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ArticleThe Cape Coloured Corps and the First World War
… and many porters, members of the South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC), struggled to deliver food rations …
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… unions and groups struggled against this exploitation. Labour Struggles in South Africa, the Forgotten Pages by …
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… dumping grounds functioned as reservoirs of cheap Black labour for White employers, but the apartheid regime also …
Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
… class in Botswana’. In 1982 he initiated the International Labour Research and Information Group (ILRIG) within the …
Lenasia, Soweto
Hundreds of people braved the cold weather to attend the Eidgah. The Eidgah was hosted next to the Mohammadiyya Qadriyya Majid at the Nirvana Drive, open field…
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
… to struggle politically with the older ruling classes over labour, land, taxation policy, tariff protection, political … enough, they can get great support…
Cacadu District Municipality
… economic benefit from the pineapple industry as it is a labour- intensive sector. There are two varieties of … and retail sector, that employs 14% of the…
Chapter 2
… ways of earning a livelihood;money-economy replaced barter;labour on white farms, in mines and towns replaced the … Bloemfontein. In July 1920, the Africans…
Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… asking the Transvaal Government to give the mines forced labour, as was done in 1897, that the dominance of the … race is to be maintained, or by introducing…
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… asking the Transvaal Government to give the mines forced labour, as was done in 1897, that the dominance of the … race is to be maintained, or by introducing…
Document 54 - K. A. Jordaan, “What are the National Groups in South Africa? A Contribution to the Symposium”, Forum Club, Cape Town, May 1954
… legal rights (the full franchise); the right to sell one's labour power in any field of economic activity (the abolition … movement for the social ownership…
77. The South African Indian Council: an assessment from within, 1978
… cane-fields in Natal. This was the primary purpose of the labour contract and if the Indians were employed in other forms of servitude, it was because of the…
Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
… a generation of young activists and helped galvanize the labour movement’s resurgence before his assassination in … legal area of political organization and…
ArticleUniversity of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline
… to stop the exploitation of workers by insourcing labour and ensuring ethical business practise.” –Wits SRC … Thursday 5 November Wits #FeesMustFall have…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… 1930 The Durban Municipality was a major employer of Indian labour, employing an average of 2 000 workers through the … The NIC and SAIC requested permission…
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… during his youth days as it is today. In 1953 the Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act was promulgated thus … superseding the 1942 War Measure. The…
Address given by Ronald First, brother of Ruth First and brother in law of Joe Slovo, on the occasion of the tribute paid to Ruth and Joe by the African National Congress, in the holding of a Torchlight ceremony on the 21st of October 2012, at the Johanne
… activity of the ANC leaders, in exile, and growing labour unrest and strikes in South Africa, hastened the … arrested and detained Ruth exposed numerous acts…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… with the NLF. Barney Desai, who had contacts with Labour Party MPs, waited at Heathrow Airport in case there … reports on the South African trade union…
Our Greatest Indian Leader since Gandhiji -Tribute to Dr. Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (From: Sechaba, second quarter), 1978
… of the People in 1955 bear ample testimony to his fruitful labour in this direction. Monty was born in Durban in 1910, … of full citizenship. Reality was…
“Our Greatest Leader since Gandhiji”, By Dr Yusuf Dadoo
… of the People in 1955 bear ample testimony to his fruitful labour in this direction. Monty was born in Durban in 1910, … of full citizenship. Reality was…
Fourthly, as to the NATIVE QUESTION
… in respect of the mobility of goods, services, capital and labour, should be allocated to the national government. 6. … be made that every person shall have…
A Message from Albert Luthuli to every Voter from the African National Congress, 1 April 1958
… us. Any sphere of employment other than ill-paid unskilled labour is being closed to us. Every means of legitimate …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the launch of the Siyakha Project, Groutville, 17 June 1995
… in fighting poverty. The fact that this initiative is labour intensive and will create jobs is important in this …
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… the white worker with such concessions as the "civilised labour policy", and other anti-colour legislation, points out …
Document 29 - Kenneth Hendrickse, “The Opposition in Congress”, The Citizen 3, 3, 4 March 1958
… in non-racial, democratic, anti-apartheid political, labour, district and cultural organisations according to …
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… creating jobs. We have worked together – as government, labour, business, civil society and communities – to remove … can enhance demand for local goods,…
McGregor, Western Cape
Legend has it that our Breede Valley neighbors would admonish their errant children with "Behave! Or I'll send you to McGregor!" and no one can deny that…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki's most stirring speeches
… the fact, solely, that they were able to provide physical labour, who taught me that we could both be at home and be …
His Life and Legacy - Oliver Tambo
… youngest wife, Lena, only after his second wife died in labour). It is a tribute to Mzimeni that family relationships … economy. Work was practical and…
Address of President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the opening of the second session of the Democratic Parliament Cape Town, 17 February 1995
… very important body, the National Economic Development and Labour Council - NEDLAC. This crucial body will bring together representatives of government,…