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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…
ArticleThe Roots of Apartheid in the Construction of Buchuberg Dam
… farmers were not willing to fulfil these demands. The Union of South Africa , pressured by 1916 with over 121 000 … These schemes also formed the backdrop of…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1920 - 1929
… of Asiatics to trade and acquire fixed property in the Union. A 22-year-old university graduate, PS Joshi, arrives … in Russian so that he could learn more…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… Women’s March to Pretoria . Florence Matomela was born in 1910 in Port Elizabeth. She was an educator and mother of … Baard, local leader of the Food and…
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…
The South African Congress of Trade Unions
… I was still working with the Food and Canning Workers' Union and after a time, since my own union and other people's unions were well organized, there … took…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU The formation of a trade union federation based on the African workers and upholding … promise for the working class. The old …
15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike - South African Worker, 27 February 1937
… Labour Party, the People's Front, the S.A. Mine Workers Union to make this demonstration a United JOINT DEMONSTRATION …
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
… agriculture only really developed after the formation of union. In the OFS capitalisation of agriculture was hindered …
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…
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 …
Chapter 11. Court Cases - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… the firm being the applicant, the Garment Workers' Union, Mr. G. Malan, an organiser of the union, and myself the respondents. This was the first time in ……
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Resources by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Historical Documents Section. The Food and Canning Workers Union Papers, University of the Witwatersrand Historical … Goode, 'The History of the Food and…
EventStudents support the appointment of Archie Mafeje
… Wits students took the matter further by marching to the Union Buildings to hand in their letter of protest. … attacked Wits marchers, preventing them from…
EventNkomo, leader of ZAPU forms a coalition government with Robert Mugabe
… Nyangolo Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) formed a coalition government with Robert Mugabe … were arrested by Robert Mugabe's…
EventCouncil of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) is formed
… unionism. In August 1982, CUSA resolved to form National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), a union which is still in operation. On 8 and 9 June 1985 unity …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… the polemical Women and Labour (1911) was published. 1912 Union in 1910 persuaded many educated Blacks to unite into a single …
An evolution of Worker Education in South Africa since 1973 and its impact on Worker Movement by John Mhandu
… development of new history on worker education and trade union movement in South Africa. The initial part of the proposed article traces the expanse of trade…
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
… foreign countries. He was constantly aware of successive Union governments' attempts to suppress their voices and as … spoke out against the intolerable…
Cosatu special congress, Day Two: Numsa, Vavi walloped by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 15 July 2015, South Africa
… Dissidents in Cosatu backing expelled metalworkers union Numsa and the ousted general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi … him. At issue was the participation of new…
EventJournalist and political activist Selby Msimang dies
… Kadalie to form the national Industrial Commercial Union (ICU). Due to differences between the two, Msimang resigned as president of the union, but rejoined…
EventCosatu calls for three days national protest against the Labour Relations Amendment Bill (LRA)
… organisations. The bill sought to curb the growing union movement and undermine gains made by workers since the … stay-away. Notwithstanding fierce…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… place. It is agreed that All African inhabitants of the union to observe Sunday, 19 January 1936 as a day of … Clements Kadalie of the Industrial and…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… Sechaba Montsitsi, and leading members of the National Union South African Students (NUSAS ) were arrested in a … by the establishment of civic associations,…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… between the European and non-European races of the Union of South Africa. The Act was progressively tightened up … Women (FEDSAW) On 9 August 1956, Women…
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
… (b) Extension of the vote to non-Europeans throughout the Union on the same terms as Europeans in the Northern … with white (d) Abolition ofPass laws…
A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief by Alfred Temba Qabula
… a fork-lift truck. In 1983 he joined the Metal and Workers Union, helping to organise Dunlop workers into the union. He participated in the "Dunlop Play" and…
EventSouth Africa approves the Constitution of the African Civil Aviation Commission
… body of the Organisation of African Unity (now the African Union) which aims to encourage co-operation in all civil … to AFCAC is open to African States and…