South African Congress of Trade Unions

Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu

Curnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu

Trade unionist, Political prisoner, member of the ANC and uMkhonto we Sizwe, National Secretary of SACTU, National Chair...

Masango Caleb job Mayekiso

Masango Caleb job Mayekiso

4 September 2019

Masango Caleb job Mayekiso was born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei and later found factory work in Port Elizabeth.

3 September 2019

3 September 2019

Stephen Dlamini

Stephen Dlamini

Stephen Dlamini, SACTU President

SACTU Foundation Conference

SACTU Foundation Conference

SACTU Foundation Conference, Trades Hall, Johannesburg, 5-6 March 1955

Ronnie Press, Textile Workers Industrial Union, Transvaal.

New Age, Thursday, April 6, 1961

New Age, Thursday, April 6, 1961

New Age, Thursday, April 6, 1961

Memory Vakalisa

Memory Vakalisa

Memory Vakalisa, Secretary, African Municipal Workers Union, Durban, 1961

Mark Shope, SACTU General Secretary after Leslie Massina

Moses Mabhida, Chairman, Natal Local Committee; SACTU Vice-President, 1957

Liz Abrahams, Acting General Secretary, FCWU

Lawrence Ndzanga

Lawrence Ndzanga

Lawrence Ndzanga

John Tsele, African Laundry Workers Union, Transvaal.

James Phillips, Executive Member, Council of Non-European Trade Unions; Chairman of Strike Committee; African Mine Worke...

Greenwood Ngotyana

Greenwood Ngotyana

Greenwood Ngotyana

Frances Baard, Secretary, A-FCWU, Port Elizabeth

Elizabeth Mafekeng

Elizabeth Mafekeng

Elizabeth Mafekeng, President, African Food and Canning Workers Union

Durban municipal workers

Durban municipal workers

Durban municipal workers challenge City Council, 1961

Appalling working conditions in the mines

Appalling working conditions in the mines

Appalling working conditions in the mines

Alexandra Bus Boycott, 1957

Alexandra Bus Boycott, 1957

Azikwelwa': We Will Not Ride Alexandra Bus Boycott, 1957

1957 treason trial protest

1957 treason trial protest

The masses protest against Treason Trial arrests, 1957

1960s one pound a day

1960s one pound a day

SACTU women, Rita Ndzanga (left) and Mabel Balfour at the £1-a-Day Demonstration, early 1960s.

1961 new age boycott

1961 new age boycott

New Age, Thursday, April 6, 1961

1930s Natal Trade Unionists

1930s Natal Trade Unionists

Natal Trade Unionists, 1930s Left to right: Errol Shanley, H.A. Naidoo. P.M. Harry, George Ponnen.

1954 wits workers people

1954 wits workers people

Witwatersrand Workers' Council of Action Conference, 1954 Front row, left to right: J. Ndamoyi, (unidentified), G. Kika,...

1956 job reservation

1956 job reservation

Industrial Conciliation Act (1956): Job Reservation

1930s Indian sugar workers

1930s Indian sugar workers

Indian sugar workers and families, Natal, 1930s.

1955 Kliptown Newclare

1955 Kliptown Newclare

Indian sugar workers and families, Natal, 1930s.

Ray Alexander (centre) discussing Union issues with Bettie du Toit (far left),Oscar Mpetha, General Secretary, A-FCWU (s...