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ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… a period of six months, from attending any meeting in the Union of South Africa. 18-20 December, At the annual ANC … not take part in any gatherings at any…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… Act of 1950, designed in part to weaken the trade union movement, had robbed the working class of 56 dedicated … downed tools after management had refused to…
Inner-Party Bulletin
… and standards of conduct, report on a visit to the Soviet Union, a meeting with the CPSU Central Committee delegation, … a visit to the headquarters of the…
Document 65 - Z. Sanders (Zena Susser), “Aspects of the Rural Problem in South Africa”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 1 December 1952, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 1, 21 February 1953 [....]
… be made effective? It is not difficult to show that since 1910, when South Africa obtained the forms of political independence, the Union, after the stimulus…
EventForces of the White Rhodesian regime (UDI) attack a nationalist guerrilla base in Mozambique
… which was opposed by the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU),two Black nationalist political organizations. A ……
EventCOSATU delegates are left at Beitbridge
… thirteen delegates of the Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU), left for Zimbabwe with the intent of meeting Zimbabwe's Congress of Trade Union …
Address at the UN General Assembly, New York, 12 September 2002
… have risen to these challenges by forming the African Union. Our Union is based on the principles enshrined in the Charter of … independence of Africa, for…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… Sir Benegal Rama Rau) declares its support for the Union Government's war effort, but demands that there should … organisers. Dimes saw itself as part of the…
“White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational categories in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny
… seeks to expand investigation into a pivotal shift in union approach which I raise in my book on retail worker … This strategy was in stark contrast to the…
ArchiveThe migrant labour system
… did not recognize 'homelands' or 'reserves' as part of the Union of South Africa, hence employment seekers travelling … and those who had already secured…
EventThe U.S. vetoes Angola’s application for membership of the United Nations Security
… Angola’s application. China abstained, accusing the Soviet Union of continued interference in Angola. Amongst the … France, Libya, Italy, Tanzania, Japan,…
EventInaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… organisations in 1961 the leading non-racial trade union co-ordinating body and the trade union wing of the ANC led Congress Alliance. After …
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… Serving the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's … months the committee had been discussing what action the…
Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money
… about 7s. 6d. a week, but as they were not members of the union and afraid to join or give information for fear of … ends meet seemed futile. The various…
EventAngola becomes independent of Portuguese colonial rule
… for the National Liberation of Angola (FLNA) and National Union for Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) signed the … which seized power was supported by…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… would not sack me. Then I heard about the Garment Workers' Union and, one lunchtime, we went to the union office. Mr. Sachs, the secretary of the union, took…
DOCUMENT 37. “Black Power--Students Forced to Leave Meeting.” Article in Dome (University of Natal), March 27, 1969
… insecurities of life. The whole experience of the Trade Union Movement the world over has furthermore established the … organisation into Trade Unions, so is…
Cable to the United Nations, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, November 25, 1948
… Press reports Mr. Louw, Union delegate, as saying in Fourth Committee on sixteen … delegate's anticipation of racial conflict resulting from Union's…
Document 98 - “The All African Convention”, Umlilo Mollo /The Flame, 1, 2, October 1936
… Native Franchise would be extended to all Africans in the Union, that hope is now dead. Far from increasing the influence of the African vote in the Union…
EventFrance supplies two new combat submarines to South Africa
… activity in the Indian Ocean. At the time, the Soviet Union was supporting Anti-Apartheid movements like the … opposing South Africa. States supported by…
EventTrade unionist, Barend Erasmus dies
… affairs of the Johannesburg Municipal Transport Workers' Union and was elected to the executive committee of the union. He served in several influential…
EventThe British government closes its consulate in Angola
… of Angola (MPLA) and South African troops for the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA). UNITA and … Namibia to oust the Marxist MPLA…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1947
… best interests of the peoples and the Governments of the Union and India "that their accredited is representatives … responsibility upon the Governments of…
ArchiveObituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders by Andries Bezuidenhout (Mail and Guardian), 6 March 2024
… aware of potential conflicts between academics and trade union leaders and insisted that university-based academics, … as a rugby player, but also as a…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… constant seriousness the segregation of the Bantu in the Union of South Africa as a solution of what is called the … his four Bills of 1926 the Land…
Women delegates to the inaugural conference of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… Lotz. 12. Freda van Rheede – Food and Canning Workers Union. 13. Cecilia Rosier – South African Congress of … : 1. Martha Nqxesha – African Food and Canning…
The Durban Strikes of 1973 and the End of a Cycle of Struggle by Mondli Hlatshwayo
… their influence as a political and social force in the union movement. In post-apartheid South Africa, public sector …
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
… First general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Cyril Ramaphosa, and its … in Newcastle, Natal. The two men and fifty-nine other union…
EventDurban mass meeting endorses Smuts and Gandhi agreement
… and Gandhi. Following the Gandhi-Smuts deliberations the Union parliament passed the Indian Relief Act on 26 June … Indian rites and facilitating the entry…
Address by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 1 December 2010
… historical milestone in the history of this great trade union movement - the 25th anniversary of the Congress of … under which COSATU was founded were: non…