Speaker 1: On This Day and Working Class History the ninth of
Speaker 1: January film and on the ninth of January nineteen seventy three,
Speaker 1: in Durban, South Africa, workers at the Coronation Brick and
Speaker 1: Tile factory came out on strike. By the end of March,
Speaker 1: close to one hundred thousand, mainly Black African workers, and
Speaker 1: approximately half the entire Black African workforce in Durban had
Speaker 1: come out on strike. By the end of February, the
Speaker 1: brick workers had won a doubling of their wages and
Speaker 1: the strike represented at turning point in South African struggles
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