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Address to the Second NEDLAC Summit presented by John Gomomo, COSATU President, on behalf of COSATU, NACTU and FEDUSA
BiographyRonald “Ron” Press
… owner, Philip Frame would not talk to him. Leon Levy the SACTU President negotiated on the phone from Johannesburg. He … Party (SACP), South African Congress…
ArticleFederation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU)
… being after the South African Congress of Trade Unions ( SACTU ) and Federation of Free African Trade Unions (FFATU) … removed from affiliation with…
Representatives of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa), the National Council of Trade Unions (Nactu), and the Con
Labour Input to the Presidential Job Summit presented on behalf of COSATU, FEDUSA and NACTU by John Gomomo, COSATU President
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… that later formed the South African Trade Union Council (SACTU ) . SACTU diverged from TUCSA's principle of playing a non-political role. Moreover, SACTU was…
BiographyGraeme Williams
Williams completed his Bachelor of Science majoring in Geology and Statistics at the University of Cape Town. For him photography was a pass time activity…
BiographyMuntu Myeza
Muntu Myeza was born on 3 December 1950 to Jacob and Julia Myeza in Natal where he also did his early education. Myeza attended part of his senior high school…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
Curtis Nkondo was born on 1st February 1928 in Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma…
BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
Nise Malange was born in 1960, in Cape Town Western Province (now Western Cape Province), South Africa and grew up in Clovelly. As a young teenager she became…
BiographyPandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe
Pandelani Jeremia Nefolovhodwe was born on 2 February 1947 in Folovhodwe village in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). Nefolovhodwe then went to the…
BiographyEric Mtshali
Eric (Stalin) Mtshali was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). After completing high school he became active in the anti-apartheid movement in Natal…
Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise
… OR STARVE: South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) Links SA Labour History Project site The Wiehahn …
BiographyGeorge Hallett
George Hallett was born in 1942 District Six, Cape Town. He then moved to Hout Bay, Cape Town to live with his grandparents. Thereafter he moved to live in…
BiographyBenny (!Khoisan X) Alexander
Benny Alexander, the third child of Estelle and Johann Alexander, a labourer, was born on 4th of March 1955 in Kimberley, where he also grew up. Following…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… (ANCYL) and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and began attending ANC and trade union meetings at … Dlamini and Moses Mabhida who were…
EventDr Ali Bacher, director of the SACU, announces the shortening of the ‘rebel cricket tour ‘as a gesture of support for the country’s dramatic political changes
The South African Rebel Tours were so called because they took place amid strong disapproval from several governments, the United Cricket Conference and…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… and violence. The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) recognized the effort of the Natal women. Their demonstrations had a profound impact on…
BiographyJacob Koti Dikobo
Jacob Koti Dikobo was born on 22 April 1962 in the village of Bataung (Makgophong) in Zebediela, Limpopo, where he also grew up. He went to Khureng Primary…
BiographyRick Turner
… the banning of the South African Council of Trade Unions (SACTU) in the early 1960s. After Black students left NUSAS, …
BiographyAli Bacher
If Ali Bacher's commitment to cricket had ended after his playing days, he would have had a proud place on the sport's roll of honour. It was Ali Bacher, the…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… is regarded as South Africa Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU's) most successful achievement in the 1950s and 1960s. … that to grant basic wage increases, as…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… demise of the South African Congress of Trades Unions (Sactu) Emerging in the early apartheid period, Sactu was so interlinked with the Congress-aligned…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… demonstrate that South African Congress of Trade unions (SACTU) campaigns were not restricted to quantitative demands for higher wages. Rather, SACTU…
The turn to armed struggle
… turn to the armed struggle. Younger members of the ANC and SACTU were also increasingly growing dissatisfied with this …
General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)
… from different trade union and political backgrounds, SACTU unionists, student radicals and sympathetic registered …
ArticleSharpeville
… (SACP) and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) sent some of their most senior members abroad to …
The South African Congress of Trade Unions
… from our head-office that we had to organize what we call SACTU (South African Congress of Trade Unions). All the unions there in Port Elizabeth took part in…
BiographyPaul Weinberg
Paul Weinberg was born in 1956 in Pietermaritzburg into a progressive middle-class Jewish family. His father was a lawyer and his mother a music teacher. He…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Durban. 1955 - 1963 South African Congress of Trade Union (SACTU) headquarters in Johannesburg opens communication lines … conference of the South African…