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Title: Employees of Civilian Blind protest against low wages, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labor unions
Description: pay increases. The workers, all employed at Civilian Blind, are said to earn as little as R200 a month.
Identifier: islandora:17766

Title: Police try to arrest teacher, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Education, Labor unions, South African Democratic Teachers' Union
Description: Teacher Tug-O'-War ... Police try to arrest one of the teachers who was part of the 30-car South African Democratic Teachers' Union motorcade through the city centre at lunchtime yesterday.
Identifier: islandora:17823

Title: Wage strike, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labor unions
Description: Wage strike, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17751

Title: Protest about Labour Relations Act, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labor unions
Description: Protest about Labour Relations Act, Cape Town.
Identifier: islandora:17748

Title: Children selling newspapers, Cape Town, South Africa, 1981
Subject: South Africa--Social conditions--20th century, Apartheid--South Africa, Children--South Africa, Newspaper vendors--South Africa, Child labor--South Africa, Some evidence of things seen
Description: It is 6:30am on a cold, wet day in winter of 1981. A young boy sleeps on the pavement on top of a pile of newspapers that he is meant to be selling. When a customer asked for 'Die Burger', another boy, selling the 'Cape Times', dutifully slipped 'Die Burger' newspaper from under the sleeping boy's head and placed the money beside his comrade
Identifier: islandora:949

Title: Collecting debris from dock basin, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Stevedores, Labor
Description: Messy job: Full-time job for these men is the retrieving of debris from the oil-covered dock basin. The corner of the Elbow accumulates all the flotsam and has oil sometimes half an inch deep.
Identifier: islandora:18027

Title: Health workers march, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labor unions, Medical personnel
Description: Left: Grim health workers march towards Parliament during their protest.
Identifier: islandora:17863

Title: SA Clothing and Textile Workers advocate workers' charter, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labor unions
Description: Workers' chain ... More than 26 000 clothing and textiles workers - all members of the South African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union - formed a broken "human chain" in 15 Peninsula industrial areas, and in Bellville, Paarl, Wellington, Worcester and Atlantis. They were advocating the inclusion of a worker's charter in a post-apartheid constitution.
Identifier: islandora:17765

Title: Transport and General Workers' Union march to Parliament, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, South African Police, Labor unions
Description: Demonstrations - Trade unions. Disgruntled workers: Members of the Transport and General Workers' Union marched to parliament today to hand over memoranda to several ministers about the state of the passenger transport sector and the contract cleaning sector.
Identifier: islandora:17745

Title: Little girl asks for the release of her father, Cape Town
Subject: Cape Town (South Africa), Western Cape (South Africa), Demonstrations, Labor unions
Description: Leila Issel, 8, with a placard calling for the release of her father, detained trade unionist Johnny Issel.
Identifier: islandora:17806

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