Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Congress Alliance, and took part in many of the resistance campaigns of the 1950s. The state, sensing the threat that an … registered unions. Nevertheless, Sactu’s Pound-a-Day campaigns were spectacularly successful in 1957, but in 1958 … many Sactu leaders and members arrested during the early 1960s, and by 1965 Sactu was decimated, leading to frenetic …