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Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… for the townspeople. Compounds enabled mine owners to keep wages low. The capitalists were only too happy to have a … selling their labour power to the…
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
… in 1994, and soon formed the Truth And Reconciliation Commission . …
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
… Schmidt (2004:141), for example, is the fact that the AU Commission acts simply as a secretariat and without powers of …
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… the ANC in Pretoria. 1994 April, India establishes a High Commission in Pretoria. 27 April, Nelson Mandela is sworn in …
Women at the start of the 20th century
… and in 1947 it demonstrated against the Native Affairs Commission, which wanted to remove squatters in Alexandra …
ArticleSouth African Film
… state assistance and intervention (via the Australian Film Commission and New Zealand Film Board) who help fund the …
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… to the participation by the NIC in the Colonisation Commission appointed by the Union Government in 1933, some …
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… pressure from them, the South African regime appointed a Commission to investigate the Indian grievances and charges … With its usual duplicity, however, it…
Chapter 5 - Preparing to negotiate
… rights. In addition, the Auditor-General, Public Service Commission, and Reserve Bank would have greater autonomy, … not to veto it. There would be an…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Stanley Uys, 01 August 1983, Londo
… to win the vote simply by organising yourselves for higher wages. In the 1950s we called a strike almost every year, but …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… of housing and transport costs, all made worse by low wages. The trade union movement grew extensively during this …
ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… by the state over the determination of black people’s wages, on which the whole system is based”. All this is made …
A volatile case of Afrikan vs. Indian in KwaZulu-Natal by Jackie Shandu, 7 April 2015, South Africa
… about their reputation of worker rights violations; slave wages, anti-Afrikan racism, and deliberate …
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… of housing and transport costs, all made worse by low wages. The trade union movement grew extensively during this …
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
… to deal with it and had no option because they had to earn wages. The employers could pay you whatever they wanted to. … on deputations to the employers. One…
PlaceKeetmanshoop
In 1908, Gottlieb Redecker was the official builder of the German Colonial Government’s Works Department, drew up plans for a new Post Office building in…
PlaceBloukrans Bridge Rest Camp, Southern Region
The Bloukrans Bridge is a stunning single span arched bridge, located in the Southern Cape region of South Africa. The bridge is one of three commissioned on…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Address by President Jacob Zuma, Gallagher Estates, 29 June 2012
… management of the economy as well. According to the 2011 Commission on Employment Equity report, black people … 86% of employees covered in the reports…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… of the Act provides for the appointment of a fact-finding commission before action is taken under Section 10. Where is … fact-finding commission? Why did he…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… and Ottosdal and began organising workers for higher wages. This drew the anger of the local police and Jingoes … Ottosdal en sy mense. Protea Boekhuis, 2008…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
This article was written by Nehal Patel and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Gertrude Fester Biography Abstract …
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… the recommendations of the report of the Nugent Commission of Inquiry into SARS and are in the process of … Africans. With the assistance of the National…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… getting daily headlines during parliamentary sessions on wages, the pass laws, on workers’ compensation and race laws … to me for help. I was able to arrange…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… disadvantaged workers implements a race-based disparity in wages, paying whites more than their black counterparts even …
PlaceNamibia
… annual reports to the League of Nations Permanent Mandates Commission . The hopes of the inhabitants of South West … regular criticism by the United Nations…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 09 February 2012
… took a decision in 2009 to establish the National Planning Commission and asked them to produce a national development … country, informed by the…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… In 1929 the National Union of South Africans Students - NUSAS - was formed. A mock parliament was established. … the law. Presumably this is because it is…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… The contents of the Eiselen Report, named after the Commission’s chairman, Dr W.W.M. Eiselen, secretary for … fitted them.12 It is difficult to believe that…
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… were due for repayment, responded in similar vein. 51 The Commission of the European Economic Community called for … found or captured and 67 were used (47%)…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… side, however, suggested the appointment of a joint border commission to Lesotho, which about a year ago indicated that … more expensive, but it is also true…