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EventJeannette Schoon and her daughter are killed by a letter bomb
… Former member of South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Jeannette Schoon, and her six-year old daughter, …
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… (SACPO), and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) met in Kliptown, Soweto at the Congress of the People (COP). It was at this meeting that the…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… (NIC) and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (Sactu) on the pass laws. 'For years,' he said, 'the Africans … addressing a South African Congress of…
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… - Gaborone, Botswana Unnamed man ANC & unionist (SACTU) Car bomb. 1982 4 June Mbabane, Swaziland Petrus Nzima … Curtis Schoon, and daughter Katryn (6) ANC…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… as the same as the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). The NIC and TIC had also allegedly allied themselves … on the fact that Gqweta had held…
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
Hemant Kumar Waghmarae was born on 24 October 1948 in Mumbai, India to Vishnu Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. …
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… class in particular. For this purpose relations with SACTU and the trade unions emerging inside the country, … the Party now taking part in meetings between…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… of labour . 23 March, The executives of the ANC, SAIC, SACTU , CPC and CoD meet in Tongaat. A National Action …
"Form united front now": Interview with Albert Luthuli, 5 May 1962
… Jooste de Blanc, Mr. Basson, Mr. Leon Levy, President of SACTU and Mr. L. C. Scheepers, President of the T.U.C., Canon …
Remarks by the President of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015
… formation of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and thirty years since the formation of the … the following quotation from Nkosi Albert…
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
… role in the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) In April 1954, Ray Alexander together with Helen …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… the 1950s when the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) was formed in 1955. The formation of solid trade … Act of 1956 passed by the government. In…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… federation, the South African Council of Trade Unions (SACTU) was banned along with the ANC for much of the 1960s …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… formed after the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and Federation of Free African Trade Unions (FFATU) …
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… as well as former South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) members. The paper proceeds to ask the question … as well as former South African Congress…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… the ANC, SACP and South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)”. [3] The independence of southern African neighbours … 1981, where a total of twelve ANC…
Address by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 1 December 2010
… parameters of the workers. It should be borne in mind that SACTU, together with the Congress of Democrats, SA Coloured … labour shall be abolished. This…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the 12th International meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties, 3 December 2010, Centurion, Pretoria
… and others in the South African Congress of Trade Union (SACTU), who laid the foundations for a progressive trade … have been able to serve all three…
BiographyBheki Cele
Life and Early Career Bhekokwakhe (Bheki) Hamilton Cele was born on 22 April 1952 to Albertina Mtshali and Gillford Cele at uMuzumbe Mission Hospital near…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… 5-6 March, The South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), the first non-racial union, is formed. The union … including Mandela. 18 September, Members of…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) into a non-racial united front known as the Congress …
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… the NIC, ANC, and South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in support of the potato boycott, which he called ‘not …
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… Within the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) in exile, an ally of the ANC, were those who argued …
The start of mass campaigns
… Chief Luthuli even said that the ANC was the shield and SACTU was the spear, meaning that we work together like the …
Testimony of Bruno Mtolo, Johannesburg (Rivonia Trial), 15 January, 1964
… books [that you were told to read by Stephan Dhalmini of SACTU]?”” Mtolo: Not at first; but the more I read the more … to believe that these things were…
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
… was represented there. Everyone was invited to come. Even SACTU sent delegates too, though they weren't a member of the Congress Alliance yet. SACTU only…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… political strategy of the ANC and its allies, the SACP and Sactu in this period. The ANC-led alliance's contribution to … de-emphasised working class…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… than the ANC, in alliance with the SAIC, SACOD, SACPO, SACTU and FSAW, launched the campaign for the Congress of the … forces for national liberation, viz.,…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… be mobilised by the leadership of the mass movement. A SACTU statement during the emergency correctly said: "We must … of the march and impending arrests, he…