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Chapter 11 - Negotiating the final constitution
… The adoption of the final Constitution concluded some of the … The ANC supported the call, but as with most national strikes, the business community and all…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… The fruit-canning industry in South Africa can be traced to … This was a direct result of the FCWU’s creation of “union schools” in the early 1950s, with the…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… The uprising of 1976-77 marked a watershed in political … union activists provoked hundreds of work stoppages and strikes. This facilitated the unionisation…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… Hertzog and Pirow’ Bills were putting the Africans more and more into a state of slavery’. Gumede, … worded resolution, calling for mass demonstrations,…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… Orginal document from the Rivonia Trail 1963-64 Nelson Mandela`s statement from the … initiated by the ANC to distribute leaflets, to organize strikes, or do…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… This chapter grounds the analysis of the emergence, ideology and politics, … All future training of teachers for state or state aided schools was to be…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… The Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union (HARWU) was a South … union, HARWU; the Kennaway Hotel and Kyalami Ranch strikes • The formation of a…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… This article was written by Ben Forstate and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship Michael Guthrie Scott was born on 30 July 1907 in the village…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… Steve Biko was not alone in forging the Black Consciousness Movement , he was nevertheless its … new residential areas, new parallel institutions such as…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - What is industrialisation? by Emilia Potenza
… From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia Potenza During the … while still at work at anniversary times of the Sunday schools, the young men and women…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2014 (before National Elections)
… State of the Nation Address By His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President … sector of our economy. The process is yielding results. Strikes in the sector were…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… John Barrow indicates on a map that gold is to be found in the approximate vicinity of either the Witwatersrand or the Magaliesberge. 1852 Gold is found ……
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia Potenza Between 1921 … the police and defence force for whites.. Industrial schools were set up to train poor…
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… first made a substantial appearance, in 1971, at the national and biennial Art South Africa Today exhibition … as formalist and modernist in universities and…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal Republic to war,…
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
… ‘The CPSA are the only people who are with us in spirit’, … and assembly; 8 Recognition of the right to education in schools of every kind; 9 Recognition of…
Closing address by President Neslon Mandela at the 49th National conferenceof the ANC Bloemfontein, 22 December 1994
… Comrades, the ANC has held many national conferences in its history. … urged the employment of weapons of struggle, like general strikes, stay-at-homes,…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… by Allison Drew Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, "The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention", … tried for sedition following the 1946…
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
… INTRODUCTION An important thrust of this chapter concerns the struggles within Black politics over methods used to … and political ideas: from Gandhian…
Chapter 5: The Socio-Economic impact of Vigilantes and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… 5.1 The Socio-Economic impact of Vigilantes and Political … violent turn. Those mainly involved in the ensuing bloody strikes were workers and youths. The…
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… Introduction The resistance against the government’s constitutional … to take into account...the varied non-electoral responses (strikes, school boycotts,…
Archive2000 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 4 February 2000
… THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH … we must warn very strongly that illegal and unjustified strikes such as the one recently…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1988
… Compatriots, Once more it is January 8th, the anniversary of your movement, the African National … recruit for the organs of state repression, to break our…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 6) A Spiral … of confrontation were evident from the number of short strikes…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in … man who was employed as a long-distance driver. In 1966, the town was bulldozed…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
… 4 January 1963. Greenwood Primary School had its origin in the Albert Jackson Primary School which first opened its doors on 26 January 1942 on the corner of…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… Contents Economic Development and the Expansion of the African Working Class The Quiescence of … much higher than in any previous decade. A total of 304…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… These Acts, which had been passed between 1856 and 1904 in the four territories, remained in force after Union. They … Desertion, insolence, drunkenness,…
ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
… This chapter comes from the book … CHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo …
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… was born in Edendale, Natal on February 26th, 1903. He was the second son to Ezra and Sardinia Dhlomo. Ezra came from a line of ancestors connected to a…