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This resource is hosted by the Nelson Mandela Foundation, but was compiled and authored by Padraig O’Malley. It is the product of almost two decades of research and includes analyses, chronologies, historical documents, and interviews from the apartheid and post-apartheid eras.

1917

First industrial African trade union is formed – the Industrial Workers of Africa (IWA), by the International Socialist League in Johannesburg

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