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Dulcie Hartwell
Dulcie Marie Hartwell (18 October 1915 – 30 October 2012) was a South Africa trade union leader. Born in Johannesburg, Hartwell's mother died when Dulcie was three years old. The family then struggled for money, and Hartwell had to leave school early. In 1933, she began working in the clothing industry, and joined the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa (GWUSA). By 1937, she was working as an organiser for GWUSA, and was also secretary of the Johannesburg Sweet Workers' Union. Hartwell worked closely with Solly Sachs, the general secretary of GWUSA, and the two married in 1942. Hartwell next became secretary of the clothing industry unemployment fund, then its medical aid society. In 1951, Hartwell and Sachs separated. That year, she became general secretary of the South African Trades and Labour Council, then of its successor, the Trade Union Council of South Africa, which excluded black workers. In 1962, she switched to become secretary of the National Union of Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African People
The population of South Africa is about 58.8 million people of diverse origins, cultures, Languages of South Africa, languages, and Religion in South Africa, religions. The South African National Census of 2022 was the most recent census held; the next will be in 2032. In 2011, Statistics South Africa counted 2.1 million foreigners in total. Reports suggest that is an underestimation. The real figure may be as high as five million, including some three million Demographics of Zimbabwe, Zimbabweans. History Population Earlier Censuses, 1904 to 2011 1904 Census South African population figures for the 1904 Census.Smuts I: The Sanguine Years 1870–1919, W.K. Hancock, Cambridge University Press, 1962, pg 219 1960 Census Sources: ''Statesman's Yearbook, Statesman's Year-Book'' 1967–1968; ''Europa World Year Book, Europa Year Book'' 1969 1904-85 national census numbers Bantustan demographics were removed from South African census data during Apartheid and for this reas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demographia, the Johannesburg–Pretoria urban area (combined because of strong transport links that make commuting feasible) is the 26th-largest in the world in terms of population, with 14,167,000 inhabitants. It is the provincial capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa. Johannesburg is the seat of the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa. Most of the major South African companies and banks have their head offices in Johannesburg. The city is located in the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills and is the centre of large-scale gold and diamond trade. The city was established in 1886 following the discovery of gold on what had been a farm. Due to the extremely large gold de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garment Workers' Union Of South Africa
The Garment Workers' Union of South Africa (GWU) was a trade union representing workers in the clothing industry in South Africa. The union was founded in 1909, as the Witwatersrand Tailors' Association, and its initial membership was focused on white master tailors and middlemen. In 1925, it established a section to represent factory workers in the industry, and this proved enormously successful; by the end of 1926, it represented 90% of clothing factory workers in the Witwatersrand region. That year, it also began representing "coloured" and Indian workers. In 1928, Solly Sachs was elected as the union's general secretary. He focused on recruiting women workers in the industry, and also worked closely with the African Clothing Workers' Union. In 1929, the union voted in a new constitution, which led in 1930 to it renaming itself as the "Garment Workers' Union". The 1931 general strike placed a significant strain on the union, and in 1934 this led the tailors' section to sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweet Workers' Union
The Sweet Workers' Union (SWU) was a small but long-lived union representing confectionery workers in South Africa. In 1925, a Women Workers' Union was established by F. Klenerman. It affiliated to the South African Trades Union Congress (SATUC), but as a general union, it was prohibited from registering with the government. As it only had membership in two industries, in 1926 it split into the Waitresses' Union and the Sweet Makers' Union. It had about 200 members, which represented 75% of the sweet makers in Johannesburg. It remained affiliated when the SATUC merged into the South African Trades and Labour Council. In the late 1930s, the union was led by Dulcie Hartwell, and in 1937, E. J. Burford established a parallel African Sweet Workers' Union to represent black labourers in the industry. In 1939, the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa helped the union expand nationwide, and by 1947, it had grown to 1,843 members. It was associated with the left wing of the movement, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solly Sachs
Emil Solomon “Solly” Sachs (11 November 1900 – 30 July 1976) was a South African trade unionist and an anti-apartheid activist. Early life Solly Sachs was born in 1900 in Kamai, Lithuania to Abraham Saks and Hannah Rivkin. His early childhood education was in Hebrew and the study of the Talmud. In 1914, he and his family had emigrated to South Africa and settled in Ferreirasdorp, Johannesburg. He left school in Standard 5 working as shop assistant and aside from organising a union for shop assistants he also studied for his matric. By 1919, he was active in the Reef Shop Assistants' Union. He had an interest in politics and was drawn to socialism joining the Communist Party of South Africa in 1919 and the Communist Youth League in 1921. By 1930, Sachs was a member of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party. He started an engineering degree in 1924 at the University of the Witwatersrand but left to tour the Soviet Union and England before returning to the u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African Trades And Labour Council
The South African Trades and Labour Council (SAT&LC) was a national trade union federation in South Africa. History The federation was founded in 1930, when the South African Trades Union Council merged with the Cape Federation of Labour Unions. The federation was broadly split between the craft unions and mining unions, which generally only admitted white workers and took conservative positions; and a growing number of industrial unions, which admitted white, Asian and "coloured" members, and often worked closely with unions representing black workers. In 1944, the federation adopted the Workers' Charter, which aimed to bring about a socialist government. In 1947, some unions of white workers resigned in opposition to the SAT&LC admitting black workers, and they formed the pro-apartheid Co-ordinating Council of South African Trade Unions. A further group of right-wing craft unions left in 1951 to form the South African Federation of Trade Unions. In 1950, the Government of Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trade Union Council Of South Africa
The Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) was a national trade union federation in South Africa. History The council was founded in October 1954 by 61 unions which split from the South African Trades and Labour Council. They decided that only registered unions would be permitted to affiliate. Because unions representing black workers were not permitted to register, this meant they were excluded from the council. A few retained links with TUCSA affiliates, and established the parallel Federation of Free African Trade Unions of South Africa. The federation was initially named the South African Trades Union Council. In 1957, it affiliated to the new South African Confederation of Labour, which aimed to bring together all registered unions in the country, but it withdrew the following year, finding many of the other unions were explicitly white nationalist. The experience led it to change its name to the "Trade Union Council of South Africa", to avoid any similarity of nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Union Of Distributive Workers
The National Union of Distributive Workers (NUDW) was a trade union representing workers involved in retail and goods transport in South Africa. History The union was founded in 1936 by supporters of the South African Communist Party, to represent white and "coloured" workers in the industry. In 1937, Max Gordon and Daniel Koza launched the African Commercial and Distributive Workers' Union to represent black workers in the industry, and from 1942 the two unions had a collaborative relationship. They held a major joint strike in 1943, which established recognition of the union with most major chains of shops. The NUDW campaigned successfully for the option of part-time work in the industry, achieved in 1953, and later for the improvement of the conditions of employment of part-time workers, mostly white women. From the late 1960s, the union campaigned against discrimination against "coloured" and Indian workers, forming the National Union of Commercial, Catering and Allied Work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cape Town
Cape Town ( af, Kaapstad; , xh, iKapa) is one of South Africa's three capital cities, serving as the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. It is the legislative capital of the country, the oldest city in the country, and the second largest (after Johannesburg). Colloquially named the ''Mother City'', it is the largest city of the Western Cape province, and is managed by the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. The other two capitals are Pretoria, the executive capital, located in Gauteng, where the Presidency is based, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital in the Free State, where the Supreme Court of Appeal is located. Cape Town is ranked as a Beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. The city is known for its harbour, for its natural setting in the Cape Floristic Region, and for landmarks such as Table Mountain and Cape Point. Cape Town is home to 66% of the Western Cape's population. In 2014, Cape Town was named the best place ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1915 Births
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2012 Deaths
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People From Johannesburg
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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