History of Labour Movements in South Africa. The history of working people, and particularly Black workers, to organise is inextricably tied to the struggle against ...
The African Mine workers strike of 1946. Introduction. The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by ...
The African Miners` Strike Of 1946. 12 September 1976 "Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their …
The Marikana miners' strike or Lonmin strike was a wildcat strike at a mine owned by Lonmin in the Marikana area, close to Rustenburg, South Africa in 2012.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is a trade union in South Africa. With a membership of 300,000 it is the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African ...
The Role of Organized Labor Labor unions and working people generally played a key role in the demise of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Why this is so comes ...
JOBS OR HEALTH? THIS WAS the “choice” workers unknowingly made when they first began to mine the rich deposits of asbestos in South Africa during the late 19th ...
Did you know? During the mining strike of 1946, that led to the formation of the African Mine Workers’ Union, a precursor to South Africa’s powerful labour ...