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Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

All South African labour laws have objectionable features which cause bitter resentment among the workers, and nearly al...

Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Nationalist Government attacks on the union continued. Schoeman refused to gazette the agreement for the clothing indust...

Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

In the Cape and Natal, the overwhelming majority of garment workers have always been Coloured, Indian and Malay, while i...

Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Few people, including most English-speaking South Africans, know anything at all about the Afrikaner people, their histo...

Introduction - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

The story of the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa epitomizes the history of South Africa itself during the last th...

Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

The year 1944 was one of the busiest for the union. In the midst of the trouble, which started in February, we became in...

Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Hester Cornelius (Translated from the Afrikaans) I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg District, Transvaal. Both...

Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

The basis of South African national policy for the last sixty years has been the maintenance of a vast reservoir of chea...

Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Although I had been active in the labour movement since the days of my youth, my election to the position of general sec...

Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Before the rise of Nazism, the ministers of the Dutch Reformed churches did not interfere with the trade unions, but fro...

Chapter 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Round about 1940 the propaganda committee of the Nationalist Party issued a pamphlet under the title, The Road to A New ...

Robert Mcbride: A coloured Life

Robert Mcbride: A coloured Life

The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter III - Dr. Philip - “Defender of the Hottentots”

From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke Herrenvolk history books present two pi...

The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - NOSIPHO MAJEKE: A Biographical Note

From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke Nosipho Majeke was the pen-name of Dora...

Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs

Serving the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months th...

CHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell

CHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell

- Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 Victory is the sum total of the resolution of a whole succession of proble...

CHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell

CHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell

- The ANC’s operational strategic heritage, 1960-1975 The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare...

CHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell

CHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell

- Prioritising armed struggle, January 1974 - June 1976 A struggle is made up of failures essentially. It’s true. You o...

CHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell

CHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell

- Soweto and All That, June 1976 - October 1978 Fifteen years after our commitment to armed struggle, we could mount no...

CHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell

CHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell

- The Quest for a Political Base, October 1978 - August 1979 [I]f our own independent efforts had taught us anything in...

CHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell

CHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell

- The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. - Mac Maharaj1 Introduction From ...

Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Racism against Indians

From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1947 ...

I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1946

From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer United ...

I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1947

From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1947 N...

I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1948

From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1948 ...

Chapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg

Chapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg

After the State of Emergency in 1960, when so many of us were locked up for four or five months in detention, there was ...

Chapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg

Chapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg

In the early 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state of emergency, there were more than 100 sabotage att...

Chapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg

Chapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg

On 11 July 1963 I was sitting in the living-room of theLiliesleaf farm-house reading Robert Junk’s Brighter than a Thous...

Chapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg

Chapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg

It is not easy to write about prison. When I was freed after 22 years I had spent 45 per cent of my life inside the wall...

Chapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg

Chapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg

To cover 22 years of imprisonment in chronological order is too difficult - and I think it would be boring to read about...

Chapter 11 The escape by Denis Goldberg

Chapter 11 The escape by Denis Goldberg

In June 1978 two new prisoners joined us in the Pretoria Security Prison. They had not long before completed their studi...

Chapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg

Chapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg

After the escape of Tim, Stephen and Alex we who remained behind bore the consequences. The prison was rebuilt and we po...

Appendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan

Appendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan

Table Mountain and the curved spine of hills associated with it define the city of Cape Town. The prevailing summer and ...

Appendix 3 The Freedom Charter

Appendix 3 The Freedom Charter

We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who...

Appendix 4 Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe by Denis Goldberg

Appendix 4 Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe by Denis Goldberg

Leaflet issued by the Command of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16th December 1961 Units of Umkhonto we Sizwe today carried out pla...

Appendix 5 Notes on Palestine and Israel by Denis Goldberg

Appendix 5 Notes on Palestine and Israel by Denis Goldberg

I made notes in November 2002 for use in future speeches on Palestine and Israel, nearly 9 years later they are equally ...

Appendix 5.1 The First Anniversary of the Declaration of the State of Palestine by Denis Goldberg

Appendix 5.1 The First Anniversary of the Declaration of the State of Palestine by Denis Goldberg

It is with a sense of great honour, and great pleasure, that we greet the people of Palestine and their leading organisa...

Appendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg

Appendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg

Comments and Personal Observations written in December 1991 as part of group reports at the end of our studies at Instit...

Appendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg

Appendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg

My thanks to Professor Goerling for inviting me to present this paper to the conference on Torture and the Future. Tortu...

Appendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg

Sam Goldberg is dead. But he lives on. One of the characters in the sell-out play, “Cincinatti”, was based on Sam, who ...