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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…
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…
Exhibition: Durban, 1973: Strike against cheap labour by David Hemson
… Wages Commissions in South Africa in 1971 and, as union official, participated in Durban strikes in 1973. He … at University of Warwick. In exile he was…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… children were taken from their parents between 1910 and 1970 to breed out Aboriginal blood. Cook encouraged … governments. In addition, Hitler destroyed the…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
… did not become a lasting and permanent part of trade union movement practice. In the second part, the paper will explore the relationships between union…
Document 65 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, Friday, 24 July 1936 at 8 p.m.
… reported that a meeting of the African Laundry Workers Union would be held next Sunday morning. Coms Phashe and … in favour of a colour bar in the Commercial…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… when it was still the Orange River Colony, pre 1910. Source: Franco Frescura collection The town was …
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…
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 ……
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …