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ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… of the Durban system, 1900-1917 p45 CHAPTER 3 The ICU, beer and bureaucracy, 1918- 1929 . …
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… in native bodies like the African National Congress or ICU ; promotion of an assistance to native trade unions, …
Academia and activism: A unique alliance in working class organisation post 1973 by Vannessa Kruger
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The post-1973 period created a space for academics, students, and…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… had been organised by the industrial Commercial Union (ICU). He began to attend ICU meetings where he heard the lCU leader Clements Kadalie …
PlaceSeal Island
Hout Bay has now become well known as the port of departure for scenic day trips to Seal island or Duiker Island, home to a colony of thousands of Cape Fur…
PlaceeThekwini Municipality
EThekwini Municipality is a Category A Municipality found in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. It is one of four coastal metropolitan Municipalities…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… black workers in South Africa. Following the demise of the ICU in the early 1940s, the mine workers were the first to …
PlaceDinorben Farm, Eastern Cape
Dinorben is a farm and is located in Joe Gqabi District Municipality, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level is 1942…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… that of the workers. In 1926, the Durban branch of the ICU powerfully voiced the grievances of migrant workers on …
PlaceKoingnaas Diamond Minning Town, Northern Cape
Koingnaas is a Town in Namakwa District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. Established in 1970, Koingnaas was once a flourishing…
PlaceTiffindell Ski Resort, Eastern Cape
Tiffindell Ski Resort - South Africa's only ski resort situated in Barkley East, Eastern Cape, South Africa's only snow ski resort! Tiffindell Ski Resort…
PlaceLangebaan Lagoon
The Langebaan Lagoon is a large salt water lagoon, regarded as a wetland of international importance, protected by the West Coast National Park (formerly…
PlaceDurban International Airport
Previously known as Louis Botha Airport (named after the South African statesman), Durban International Airport, was the major airport servicing the Area of…
EventDale Steyn retires from Test cricket
On 5 August 2019, Dale Steyn South African cricketer announced his retirement from the Test format. He made his Test debut against England in December 2004. In…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
1942 12 April, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is born in Nkandla in northern KwaZulu-Natal. 1958 Zuma joins the African National Congress (ANC) and through…
PlaceKwaZulu-Natal Literary Trails (under Heritage Routes)
Kwa-Zulu Natal has a diverse literary heritage, from the legacy of prominent Indian writers and political figures in Grey Street in Durban, to the writers of…
PlaceCentral African Republic
Diamond prospectors in the Central African Republic have found polished flint and quartz tools that are at least 8,000 years old. About 2,500 years ago local…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
In the 1930s various trade unions from different backgrounds ranging from conservative craft unions, white racist industrial unions, white dominated racially…
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The Conference was formally opened in the City Hall, on…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
IMPORTANT NOTE: CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY – Due to time constraints, President Mbeki omitted portions of his speech during the delivery, but the full prepared…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
Early LifeJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi – his praise name) was born on 12 April 1942 at Nkandla in northern Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He is the first…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South African Trade Unions COSAW,…
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
I must admit at the outset that when we first met in this hall six years ago, we and our people, who looked spell-bound at Convention, were full of great…
Speech by Deputy Minister Gwendoline Mahlangu-Nkabinde, South African Deputy Minister of Economic Development at a Business Conference held in conjunction with the Wuhan Government, Wuhan, China 11 August 2010
The Executive Governor of the Province of Hubei, Mr Li Xiansheng, our distinguished hosts, honoured guests, fellow South Africans, ladies and gentlemen; It is…
PlaceNieu-Bethesda
It was founded in 1875 as a Church Town, like many other Karoo Villages. It was started by a determined group of people who lived in the area and who wanted a…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… Commercial Workers' Union at its peak in 1927 - and the ICU was a general union which never organised along …
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… caused by the interests of whites. Thus he wrote: "In the ICU left and right sections tried to please left and right …
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement by the head of the ANC NEC policy sub-committee on the release of Policy Discussion documents, 05 March 2012
We welcome senior political editors and editors of the South African media and the international media. The ANC is launching its discussion documents, which…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
With special reference to the campaigns in Britain by the Anti-Apartheid Movement Paper prepared for the United Nations Unit on Apartheid in 1971 1 The…
PlaceHistorical core of Wynberg Village
The old village of Wynberg was developed during the mid-19th Century when it became the preferred place of retirement for British civil servants returning from…