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1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
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- SharpevilleOn 19 March 1960, the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) called on Black South Africans to…
- Defeat of the Liberation struggleFollowing the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, the Government declared a State of Emergency …
- Harriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial UnionBy the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the…
- Harriet and the Bolton Hall FourThe “Bolton Hall Four” David Davis, David Hemson, Jeannette Cunningham-Brown and Halton…
- Indian women workers, Durban’s clothing industry and the GWIUBy the time Harriet became General Secretary for the GWIU, Indian women started to enter…
- Wages CommissionSoon after the 1971 garment workers’ strike at Currie’s Fountain, three students from the…
- General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)NUSAS students set up the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF) in 1972. They…
- Institute for Industrial Education (IIE)The Institute for Industrial Education (IIE) was founded in Durban, in May 1973, to serve…
- The Strikes and Popular and Political Support By late February 1973, the spread of the strikes was the most significant development…
- Metal and Allied Workers Union At a GFWBF meeting in Pietermaritzburg in April, metalworkers from two factories called…
- SASO BanningsSASO came under increasing attack from the Government. In March 1973, eight Black…
- Timeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes1972 October and December - Strikes at the Durban docks October 1972 - when new…