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1973 Durban Strikes
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- 1973 Durban Strikes Conference , 26-28 January 2023 - Celebrating 50 YearsJanuary 8, 2023, will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Durban Strikes and the…
- SASO BanningsSASO came under increasing attack from the Government. In March 1973, eight Black…
- Metal and Allied Workers Union At a GFWBF meeting in Pietermaritzburg in April, metalworkers from two factories called…
- The Strikes and Popular and Political Support By late February 1973, the spread of the strikes was the most significant development…
- Institute for Industrial Education (IIE)The Institute for Industrial Education (IIE) was founded in Durban, in May 1973, to serve…
- General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)NUSAS students set up the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF) in 1972. They…
- Wages CommissionSoon after the 1971 garment workers’ strike at Currie’s Fountain, three students from the…
- Indian women workers, Durban’s clothing industry and the GWIUBy the time Harriet became General Secretary for the GWIU, Indian women started to enter…
- Harriet and the Bolton Hall FourThe “Bolton Hall Four” David Davis, David Hemson, Jeannette Cunningham-Brown and Halton…
- 1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet BoltonFollowing the 1973, Durban strikes, TUCSA seemed unwilling to hold to book employers…
- Harriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial UnionBy the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the…
- Defeat of the Liberation struggleFollowing the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, the Government declared a State of Emergency …
- SharpevilleOn 19 March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South Africans to…