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ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… Congress (SAIC), APO and the Coloured People's National Union requesting them to convene a National Convention in … Planning Council Report and resolves to…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 7
… Dunlop rubber factory in Durban The Natal Rubber Workers' Union had been organised in 1939. This Union opened its membership to European, Indian and Native ……
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… Government with the communist Bolshevik Party. The Soviet Union (as Russia came to be known) developed into one of the … the fall of communism and the…
EventSouth Africa celebrates the first National Women’s Day
… history, 20 000 women of all races marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings on 9 August 1956, to present a petition … Although Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom was…
EventAfrican Mineworkers’ strike starts
… John Beaver (JB) Marks, leader of the African Mineworkers' Union, started on this day. The strike was initiated by the … organisations, which began during…
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, January 1946
… against [proposed] incorporation South West Africa into Union" The Chairman General Assembly United Nations … against [proposed] incorporation South West…
62. Congress defends its stand on the colonisation scheme
… the preliminary enquiry which has been instituted by the Union Government on the subject of a colonisation scheme for … agrees to co-operate with the…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… sent to Angola and then to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union for military training. It is often argued that among … formation. He also opened a dialogue…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… working class as a political entity. Racial (and regional union antagonisms within the working class were deeply rooted … watershed year of 1924, white trade…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… away from the White-led student federation, the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), and formed their own … a year later. BPC launched the Black…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… People Organisation (APO), the Coloured People's National Union (CPNU), and the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) that … Association, the ANC, local…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… the YCLs established at this time were modelled on the All-Union Leninist Communist League of Youth, better known as the … Sachs went overseas on a visit to…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… four were all members of the South African Allied Workers Union (SAAWU), while the others were members of the United … a case against the way that the SAAWU…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… is fighting against the citadel of the working class -the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Wherever there are … it before. South Africa needs to know…
1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference 1973: Neo-apartheid and the sleeping the giant. Mbuso Nkosi …
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… Phakamile Hlubi-Majola, spokesperson for the National Union for Metalworkers South Africa (NUMSA) explained their … On 20 March, Deputy Secretary General at…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… Poland where he attended a congress of the International Union of Students. In 1952, Ahmed Kathrada returned to South … in 1964 was sent for a year to Odessa…
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… heroism is over. The irony of having the former National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and ANC secretary-general, Cyril … Yet it is as vulnerable in the…
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… In May, 1960, the Union of South Africa will be 50 years old. The Government is … people of Britain, by whose Parliament the original Act of Union was…
Document 47 - “Answer to Government’s Apartheid Unions”, The Citizen. 1 3, 30 April 1956
… TO CONTROL THE FREE ASSOCIATION OF WORKERS INTRADE UNION ORGANISATIONS. IT IS THE UNCHALLENGEABLE RIGHT OF … protection. THE I.C.U. I have associated with…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… the Transvaal as an attorney of the Supreme Court of the Union of South Africa. In this historic call, he emphasized … and afterwards was called to the bar…
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
… following years – including being immersed in developing a union movement leading to Fosatu and then Cosatu by mid1980s … the demise of techno-economically…
EventDay of mourning held for Kinross mine disaster that claimed 177 lives
… mourn these deaths, under the supervision of NUM (National Union of Mineworkers). An earlier memorial service, sponsored … October. Workers had also…
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… exhibitions and educational activities. This double-storey Union style building, once the headquarters of the City's … depiction of the histories of black…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… when it was still the Orange River Colony, pre 1910. Source: Franco Frescura collection The town was …
Document 28 - Letterfrom E. R. Roux to the Central Executive, Communist Party of South Africa, 25 September 1928
… the Congo, Kenya, and Southern Rhodesia as well as in the Union itself. In all these territories the demand for labour … There is thus every possibility…
Address at the SANEF Conference on the Media, the AU, NEPAD and Democracy ,12 April 2003
… media from across the African continent with the African Union and its programme, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). The African Union has…
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
… does not seem to be clarity on this within the present union movement. There are good reasons for this lack of … their unions are weak and unstable…
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… confirmed the subordinate's chieftainship, and through the union, the paramount chief remained influential in local …
ArticleThe Causes of World War I
… were years of major strikes organised by a powerful union movement.Britain also faced increased pressure on the …