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ABBREVIATIONS USED

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1 Sep 2019
  • ICFTU - International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
  • IDAF - International Defence and Aid Fund
  • ILO - International Labour Organization
  • IMF - International Metalworkers Federation
  • ISCOR - Iron and Steel Corporation of South Africa
  • LC - Local Committee (SACTU)
  • LKB - Langeberg Ko-Operasie Besperk
  • MC – Management Committee (SAC TU)
  • MWU - Metal Workers Union
  • NCC - National Consultative Committee (Congress Alliance)
  • NEC - National Executive Committee (SACTU)
  • NIC - Natal Indian Congress
  • NL (SD) Act - Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act (1953)
  • NOC - National Organizing Committee (SACTU)
  • NSIEU - Natal Sugar Industrial Employees Union
  • NUCT - National Union of Commercial Travellers
  • NUCW - National Union of Clothing Workers
  • NUDW - National Union of Distributive Workers
  • OFS - Orange Free State
  • PAC - Pan-Africanist Congress
  • PDL - Poverty Datum Line
  • PUTCO - Public Utilities Transport Corporation
  • PE - Port Elizabeth
  • SACOD/COD - South African Congress of Democrats
  • SACOL - Congress South African Confederation of Labour
  • SACPO/SACPC/CPC - South African Coloured People's Organization
  • SACTU - South African Congress of Trade Unions
  • SACWU - South African Clothing Workers Union
  • SAFCI - South African Federated Chamber of Industries
  • SAFTU - South African Federation of Trade Unions
  • SAIC - South African Indian Congress
  • SARHWU/ SARH (NE) WU - South African Railway and Harbour (Non-European) Workers Union
  • SOWU - Shop and Office Workers Union
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South African History Online. (2012, January 16). ABBREVIATIONS USED. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0072497

South African History Online (2012) 'ABBREVIATIONS USED', South African History Online, 16 January. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0072497 (Accessed: 6 September 2026).

South African History Online, ABBREVIATIONS USED [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0072497, (accessed 6 September 2026).

"ABBREVIATIONS USED." South African History Online, 16 Jan. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0072497. Accessed 6 Sept. 2026.

South African History Online. "ABBREVIATIONS USED." South African History Online. January 16, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0072497.

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