The Rhodesian Railway Workers' Union (R.R.W.U.) was a trade union in Rhodesia which represented European railway workers employed by the Rhodesian Railways...
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The Railway Workers' Union is the name of: General Railway Workers' Union, former trade union in the United Kingdom Indonesian Railways Workers' Union, trade...
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The Railway African Workers' Union (R.A.W.U.) was a trade union in Rhodesia which represented black African railway workers employed by the Rhodesian Railways...
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Northern Rhodesia (section Railway developments)
Roy Welensky, a leader in the Rhodesian Railway Workers' Union who had been elected in 1938, set up the Northern Rhodesian Labour Party as a party favouring...
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Rhodesia Labour Party (redirect from Rhodesian Labour Party)
year. The largest contribution to the party was made by the Rhodesian Railway Workers' Union. When the Responsible Government Party became the Rhodesia...
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White Zimbabweans (redirect from Rhodesians)
White Zimbabweans, also known as White Rhodesians or simply Rhodesians, are a Southern African people of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and...
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The Tazara Railway, also called the Uhuru Railway or the Tanzam Railway, is a railway in East Africa linking the port of Dar es Salaam in east Tanzania...
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Trades Workers’ Union Zimbabwe Urban Councils Workers’ Union (ZUCWU) Zimbabwe Union of Journalists Zimbabwe Amalgamated Railway Workers’ Union (ZARWU)...
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the RR became the Zimbabwe Rhodesian Railways, and the following year (May 1), it gained its current name, National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ). In 1983...
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Roy Welensky (category Rhodesian anti-communists)
in the trade union movement, joining the Rhodesian Railway Workers' Union. After participating in the unsuccessful 1929 Rhodesian Railways strike, Welensky...
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Southern Rhodesian African Trade Union Congress (SRATUC), a breakaway from the more moderate Southern Rhodesian Trade Union Congress (SRTUC). The new union was...
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Joshua Nkomo (category Rhodesian Methodists)
unionist for black railway workers and rose to the leadership of the Railway Workers Union and then to leadership of the Southern Rhodesian chapter of the...
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deformed workers' state, where the capitalist elite have been replaced by an unaccountable bureaucratic elite and there is no true democracy or workers' control...
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Kabwe (section Headquarters of Zambia Railways)
town as a sacrifice zone for industry. The first railway in the country, operated by Rhodesian Railways when the territory was administered as North-Western...
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Black Rhodesian Rail Workers Strike". LibCom. 18 January 2017. Retrieved 1 November 2024. Vickery, Kenneth P. (1 September 1998). "The Rhodesia Railways African...
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part of a general import substitution programme initiated during the Rhodesian Bush War, commercial vehicles were converted for military uses and several...
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site while Buiskop sandstone was used for the courtyards. Stinkwood and Rhodesian teak were used for timber and wood panelling. The roof tiles and quarry...
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after the invasion of Poland in 1939. By the war's end, 26,121 Southern Rhodesians of all races had served in the armed forces, 8,390 of them overseas, operating...
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uprisings. However, In 1916, railway workers formed the Rhodesia Railway Workers' Union. The Rhodesia Mine and General Workers' Association was formed in...
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The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration...
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Zimbabwe (category Member states of the African Union)
almost entirely of specialists of the former Rhodesian Army, while unintegrated battalions of the Rhodesian African Rifles were assigned to the 1st, 3rd...
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Southern Rhodesia in World War I (redirect from Southern Rhodesian involvement in the First World War)
war, parties of white Southern Rhodesians paid their own way to England to join the British Army. Most Southern Rhodesians who served in the war enlisted...
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Charles Mzingeli (category Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union members)
Southern Rhodesian Labour Party, which had recently opened its doors to blacks. In 1945, following a massive strike by black railway workers, Mzingeli...
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British South Africa Company (BSAC) was responsible for building the Rhodesian railway system in the period of primary construction which ended in 1911,...
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private gardens were allowed for one million workers to farm in their private plots. Even so, most Soviet workers lived in crowded communal housings and dormitories...
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Southern Rhodesia African National Congress (redirect from Southern Rhodesian African National Congress)
After working on the Rhodesian Railways African Employees' Association, he was elected President of the Bulawayo-based Southern Rhodesian chapter of the African...
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Workers-Peasants' Government. I am always prepared on order of the Workers and Peasants Government to rise to the defense of my Motherland, the Union...
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South Africa after the Rhodesian games, the All Blacks' train crashed into another train, killing one local Rhodesian railway worker and injuring one All...
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Samora Machel (section Rhodesian Bush War)
“Mozambique National Resistance” operated as an auxiliary branch of the Rhodesian armed forces. Frelimo dismissed them as “armed bandits”. As part of the...
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Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and a number of minority parties. All Coloureds registered in the Rhodesian electoral system prior to December...
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