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ArticleCosatu timeline
2010 19 January: (Congress of South African Trade Unions) COSATU affiliate The Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) entered their third week of striking…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work", (Editorial),…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… belonged to the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), arrived in London in 1966 and became the general …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… himself admits that, during the Year of the Charter, which Sactu had also proclaimed the Year of the Worker, the strike … battle-cry, the motto of our trade…
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… of Security. Secretaries General of the ANC, SACP and SACTU. This was to facilitate effective joint planning as the … country in certain instances also did…
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
… of the powerful South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the Natal Indian Congress, the establishment of the …
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… refusal to join the UDF was informed by their analysis of Sactu's history. They considered that Sactu's alliance with the ANC in the 1950s and 1960s had …
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… organs of the liberation movement, especially the ANC and SACTU; and (d) "technical work for the Party" such as the …
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… for African workers were slashed by the NP government. A SACTU survey of four representative industries in 1957 showed …
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… leadership of the ANC, the PAC, the Communist Party and SACTU was all largely eliminated by the mid-1964, with … organisation. It began with the engagement…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… executive of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), felt that because of traditional male attitudes which … The nonracial South African Congress…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… executive of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), felt that because of traditional male attitudes which … The nonracial South African Congress…
Cosatu special congress, Day One: The façade finally falls by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 14 July 2015, South Africa
The Façade Finally Falls For the longest time, the national office bearers of Cosatu insisted that they have a firm grip on the federation. After the…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… 30/4/197530/4/1980 Bulwer.Former National President of SACTU. Detained in 1963 and sentenced to 9 months … Union in Cape Town and Western Cape, and chairman…
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… corner, “Long Live the ANC/SACP alliance,” then “Long live SACTU/COSATU! Long live UDF!” And in another part of the …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… of the adoption of the Freedom charter in 1955. 1980 SACTU declares the year as the year of the Worker 1980 … Africa. 1986 March, COSATU held discussions…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some way, understands it. No institution presents and parses that…
The Johannesburg Biennale by Bisi Silva (Artnet), 1998
As curious as it may seem to a jaded Western art world, the large-scale global art exhibition still strikes many emerging nations as a good idea. One such is…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976…
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
The increasing social unrest in South Africa that swept through the country in the 1980s, and the changing geopolitical circumstances on the international…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… April 1958 it was "Defeat the Nats". As was pointed out by SACTU leader Dan Tloome - reflecting a widespread feeling …
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… member of the South African Congress of Trade Unions - SACTU He emerged from countrywide detentions in 1963 to give …
Address to the Botswana National Assembly, Gaborone, 11 March 2003
Honourable Speaker, Your Excellency, President Festus Mogae and Mrs Mogae, Your Excellency, Vice President Ian Khama, Honourable Leader of the House, …
Liberation organisations
UDF The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial alliance of about 400 national, regional and local organisations. It was launched in Cape Town in 1983,…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
Vladislavic: What work are you showing at the Art Fair?Goldblatt: I've chosen 30 pictures, both old and new. It's a rather disparate collection of work that I…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… their meeting in Lusaka from 1-3 March 1986'. *Cosatu, Sactu & ANC, `Communique of the Meeting Between the Congress …
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… in April 1982 unions, registration dominated proceedings. Sactu, Footnote and with it those most visibly associated …
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… of the entire liberation movement, the ANC, SACP, SACTU, UDF, COSATU and the entire MDM. It is these general …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 93th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2005
… of the formation of the SA Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), The 20th Anniversary of the formation of our Alliance …
86. Non-racial sport
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African Cricket Board (SACB), which is…