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EventAllison Wessels George (Mhlongo) Champion is born
… Trade union leader, politician and businessman, Allison Wessels … Transvaal branch of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU) when it relocated its…
ArchiveBriefing by Mr D Simpson, Head of the State D
… Mr Simpson explained the context of talks with the Soviet Union in December 1982 and that the Soviet Union would lilke to see the United States maintain a…
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…
Document 3 - National Anti-CAD Conference Agenda, Oddfellows Hall, Hope Street, Cape Town, Saturday, 29 May [1943]
… vigilance, soÂcial, political, sporting, trade union, educational and religious organisations: (a) … That this Conference undertakes to draw up a Union-wide…
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…
EventZimbabwe’s interior minister Joshua Nkomo is dismissed
… bitter fighting between Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) supporters in the Ndebele-speaking region of the country and the ruling Zimbabwe African…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… close links with the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU). The ICU was very influential in channeling …
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 ……
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… Pan-Africanist, formed the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), which campaigned for the end of colonial rule. … of Angola (MPLA), the Zimbabwean…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… Pan-Africanist, formed the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), which campaigned for the end of colonial rule. … of Angola (MPLA), the Zimbabwean…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
… on organising African workers around issues of trade union rights and national liberation demands, and by 1925 the … In 1946 the CPSA and the African Mine…
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…