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… had to contend with the migrant labour system, passes and influx control, job reservation, poverty wages and oppressive laws. Nevertheless, trade unions were an … Everyone has the right to fair labour practices. Every worker has the right to form and join a trade union; to …

… The first recorded discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand was made by Jan Gerrit Bantjes in June 1884, on the farm Vogelstruisfontein, and was followed soon thereafter, in September, by the … consensus that credit for the discovery of the main gold reef must be attributed to George Harrison, whose …

… Questions of a worker …

… A Reply to S. B.", South African Worker, 13June 1936 …

… Calls Mass Demonstration to Commemorate", South African Worker, 27 February 1937 The traditions of the labour … young as it is are traditions that we can be proud of and that we shouid not allow to slip into a dim memory of the … the Rand supported the miners against the Chamber of Mines and the Government for which they were brutally shot down by …

… Liberation League Acfivities", Soufh African Worker, 17April 1937 …

… law (Berger, 1992). The SWU, by 1941, was a fairly “weak and ineffective” organisation despite several years of … Sweet workers were divided equally between Afrikaner women and African men. Within a few months of organising under … Burford had first intended to organise the black and white workers into a single union (Scanlon, 2007). Once …

… Leaders' Co-ordinating Committee's Work", South African Worker, 4 September 1937 …

… Introduction Starting in the late 1970’s and reaching its height in the 1980’s, the South African … faced by workers, supported protest action and bolstered worker unity. The plays generally did provide some historical … Natal’s port town, Durban, the main trading post for the gold fields.  Durban had to increase its agricultural output …

… by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving the Congressional Gold Medal …

… This article was written by Bennett Gwynn and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project … Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid   Nobengazi Mary Kota is a South … Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn …

… Convention Forthcoming Conference,"South African Worker, 13 November 1937 …

… West Africa and trans-Saharan trade: salt, gold, slaves and ancient trade routes, centres of learning, historical …

… Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS , Congress of South African … CWIU, Chemical Workers Industrial Union CWLP, Culture and Working Life Project DHAC, Durban Housing ction Committee … basis of unfair labour practice. 1 May, May Day staging of worker plays at Curries Fountain Stadium in Durban. The large …

… century, when the first jam factories opened in Paarl and Stellenbosch in the Western Cape. Fruit canning began in … 1986: 90). Women were prominently involved in the food and canning industry during World War II and the post-war … Elizabeth to expand the membership of the Food and Canning Worker's Union, she was recruited and was later employed as …

… Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Annual Gold Award ceremony of the President't award …

… Convention for Better Conditions", South African Worker, 26 September 1936 …

… The birth of the Industrial and Commercial Union of South Africa (ICU) came about after … delegates from the ICU, the Cape Town branch of the IWA and worker’s movements in Port Elizabeth, East London and Aliwal … Industrial and Commercial Workers Union …

… allure. The promise of hidden treasure, the unexplored and underwater adventure is so seductive that a healthy, … shipwrecks. Although most people associate treasure with gold and silver cargo, historic shipwrecks provide maritime … Maritime history and heritage: shipwrecks …

… Our success educationally, industrially and politically is based upon the protection of a nation … The continent’s two most profitable mineral resources are gold and diamonds. In 2008 the continent produced about 483 tons of gold, which made up 22 percent of the world’s total …

… the future leaders of the world could meet in peace and get to know and respect each other.His original idea was … in the marathon in St Louis. South Africa’s first Olympic Gold Medal The fourth modern Olympic Games, London, 1908 … semi-finals), but won the final for South Africa’s first gold medal at an Olympic Games. (Figure. 2) Sometime after he …

… conquest, land dispossession, economic impoverishment, and exclusion from citizenship of Africans.  Part one … of the first Boer Republic in Natal. The discovery of Gold and Diamonds The discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886) transformed South African from an agrarian …

… on a farm in the British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner “Boer” controlled Transvaal Republic … segregated White-controlled capitalist industrial society and over the next two decades into the economic powerhouse of … Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s …

… was formed in London around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various broadly leftist political tendencies. The ALSC launched Azania Worker and Azania Frontline as publications that were part of the … The Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications …

… Constructing Heritage and Heritage Resources Heritage – our past, and where we come … to sustain a large population. It was a trading centre. Gold was mined to the west of Great Zimbabwe and ivory passed … the rest of the people. Archaeologists found objects like gold and bronze spearheads, which were all symbols of …

… the Cape Province, the Orange Free State, the Transvaal, and Natal. In 1961 the Union of South Africa became … break out, and this time the Boers would lose. In 1886, gold was discovered in the ZAR. People from all over the … world came to Johannesburg, the new mining town, to find gold. The Boers did not want the foreigners to take their …