Abasebenzi bempahla manyanani
- Authors: Labour History Group
- Date: 1983-08
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: Xhosa
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/299946 , vital:57874
- Description: Abantu abamnyama bahlupheka ngakumbi ngokuye kusanda kobungxowankulu emZantsi Afrika. Abamhlophe abaninzi bazuze kobubungxowa nkulu. Abamhlophe babanolawulo kwinkompani zemiGodi; belawula nefaraa ezinkulu kwanamizi Mvaliso ngo- kunjalo. Abasebenzi abamhlophe emigodini ba- sebenzisa uMona ukuzuza ngokuphindwe kalishumi kunabamnyama.Kodwa ayingabobonke abamhlophe ababanelo- thamsanqa. Abanye abamhlophe babehluphekule. Belahlekana nemihlaba yabo ngokungxothwa ngo- nofama abatyebileyo. Baya ezidolophini apho bahlala ngokuhlwempuzeka okukhulu njengabobonke abamnyama. Uninzi 1walamahlwempu amhlophe yayi- ngamaBulu.Lamahlwempu amaBulu ayengafundanga engenayo na- nqeqesho ngezoshishino bafumana kunzima uku- fumana imisebenzi. Babanokwenza umsebenzi aba- ngawuqeqeshelwanga kodwa abaqeshi babewunika abemnyama bona babehlawula phantsi. uRulumente wancedisana neqaqobana lalamahlwempu amhlophe angena ngqeqesho ngokuwafunela umsebenzi kwa- Loliwe.
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- Date Issued: 1983-08
The ICU
- Authors: Labour History Group
- Date: 198?
- Subjects: Champion, A W G (Allison Wessels George), 1893-1975 , I.C.U. (South Africa) , Agricultural laborers -- South Africa , Kadalie, Clements, 1893-1951 , Labor unions -- South Africa , Msimang, Selby , Mbeki, Thomas , Working class -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: book , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/60132 , vital:27739
- Description: Black people live and work in very poor conditions in South Africa. They have always protested and resisted this. But at the beginning of this century, these protests were limited to a few groups of workers at any one time. There was no organisation for black workers. Then, soon after the First World War ended, a new movement appeared. It spread through the land like a veld fire. The people began to talk of their liberation, their new leaders and their organisation - the Industrial and Commercial Union (the I.C.U.). As a farm labourer from Standerton said: "Man we thought we were getting our country back through Kadalie".
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- Date Issued: 198?