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Strikes in the Schools
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Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the … African Trade Unions (FFATU) disintegrated in the 1960's. Strikes Fattis and Monis Strike 1979 In…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… The school students in Cape Town reacted to the news they … of events in Soweto. A teacher at one of the Coloured schools was later to write: 'We haven't…
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
… The Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu was born on the 11 June … Xundu’s father when they had been pupils at St Matthew’s Schools. He found employment as a clerk…
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
… KwaDlangezwa in Empangeni. At both primary and secondary schools, Mzala`s academic record was outstanding. He acquired the name, Comrade Mzala, as he was…
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
… Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress (ANC) from December 1952 until … this stage Adams College was reputed…
BiographyArnold Selby
… was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a … Secretary of the African Textile Worker's…
BiographyRick Turner
… an activist and educationist. He was highly influential in the re-emergence of the Black labour movement and one of the … a more democratic encounter than…
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… His mother, Gumte Singh, was born in Durban. Singh was the youngest in a family with five brothers and two sisters. There were very few primary schools in…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… ... A strike teaches workers to understand what the strength of the employers and what the strength of the … capitalists, but of government and the laws as…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… was born on 8 March 1893, in Manzana, Ngcobo District, in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Xuma was the seventh … old. Between 1912 and 1913, Xuma…
BiographyJohn Beaver "J.B" Marks
… mother, a midwife. His father was a staunch supporter of the African National Congress (ANC).In 1921, his parents succeeded in getting him enrolled at the…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… During the early 1960s, civil society was disempowered and social … indication of black workers’ mood. In February 1973 mass strikes erupted impacting across…
Joseph Zenzele Mavi
… Trade unionist who brought the grievances of black workers int white homes through a … Johannesburg municipal workers in 1980.Mr Mavi was born in the…
(1976) ‘School strike - Botha quizzed’, The World, 3 June.
… (1976) ‘School strike - Botha quizzed’, The World, 3 June. …
Bokala, W. (1976) ‘Seventh school join strike’, The World
… Bokala, W. (1976) ‘Seventh school join strike’, The World …
’Seventh school join strike’, Bokala, W. ,The World. 1976
… ’Seventh school join strike’, Bokala, W. ,The World. 1976 …
’School strike - Botha quizzed’, The World. 3 June 1976
… ’School strike - Botha quizzed’, The World. 3 June 1976 …
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… Strikes in the Schools Presumably, not all students of the earlier … The first, recorded stoppages of lessons, (always called strikes in the South African…
Sadecque Variava
… (now Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), the fourth of seven siblings. His father held various jobs … a lively and intelligent woman, was a cook…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… Raised in the close knit community of Dowerville, Port Elizabeth … in 1940. Landman initially taught at small mission primary schools at Cyperfontein and…
BiographyCarol Moses
… Oudtshoorn. Moses was a struggle activist who stood up for the people of the Karoo. Moses was arrested more than seven times; one of … (COSAS) . In 1985,…
BiographyBongani Mnguni
… and photojournalist who dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the apartheid system. Mnguni was born in Soweto on the 18th … the use of Afrikaans…
Nxumalo, C. (1976) ‘New school joins strike’, The World, 28 April, p. 4.
… Nxumalo, C. (1976) ‘New school joins strike’, The World, 28 April, p. 4. …
’New school joins strike’, Nxumalo, C., The World. 28 April 1976
… ’New school joins strike’, Nxumalo, C., The World. 28 April 1976 …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… Daily Mail photographer, two of which were published in the and Daily Mail of 29 September 1962 and captioned: … in repressing dissent, until in 1973 a…
BiographyEmsley Manne Dipico
… Manne Dipico, activist, politician and former Premier of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature, was born in Greenpoint, Kimberley. Emsley Manne Dipico…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… (now Limpopo) to Radikubu and Nkone. He grew up in the village of Manaleng in Northern Transvaal. He attended … Mphahlele and his cousin Moses started a…
BiographyTerry Bell
… 1961 Joe Gqabi recruited him “briefly and in error” into the then recently banned African National Congress (ANC). He subsequently joined the Congress of…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… The period after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of … students at their leadership seminars and formation schools. They formed an umbrella…