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From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… crushing of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). What made the Durban strikes a turning point in South …
Bonani Africa 2010 Awards
A panel of judges consisting of Omar Badsha, Mary Corrigall, David Goldblatt, Thembinkosi Goniwe and Riason Naidoo has awarded the following photographers with…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… the emergence of the South African Congress Trade Unions (SACTU) that the trade unions found a home. It was a long, …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… workers` union. That trade union subsequently joined SACTU when SACTU was formed. He has continued throughout to maintain the …
Bonani Africa 2010 Photographic Festival Conference
Please forward this page to other photographers by using the send to a friend tab The Bonani Africa 2010 Festival of photography presented a three day…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… in South African jails. Between 1960 and 1966, 160 SACTU officials were arrested, and many convicted on sabotage … were executed. In the last conference it…
PAC office bearers
PAC Presidents from 1959 - present President Period Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe 1959 - 1962 Zephania…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… ‘fifties of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (Sactu), the trade union arm of the Alliance. Sitting in the … Moses Mabhida was a prominent leader of…
Afrapix members, associated members and contributors
Anna Zieminski (member) Biddy Partridge (founding member) Billy Paddock (member) Brett Eloff (contributor) Cecil Sols (member/associate) Cedric Nunn …
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… out of some exiled black consciousness supporters. 4 And Sactu was playing a spoiling role abroad to ensure that the … a senior SACP and South African…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to National Worker`s Day Rally, 1 May 2011, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
… Congress of Trade Union`s Conference in 1959, that: "SACTU is the spear, ANC the shield No worker is a good … with the broader national struggle. As a…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
… they took it up vigorously. Thus in Port Elizabeth (as a SACTU activist, Alven Bennie, later recalled): "The workers … nationwide echo it evoked among…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… for the launching of a newly created trade union movement, SACTU, which conceptualised and propagated political unionism … the sponsoring organs and the…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… offices of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) which was not yet banned. Hani is elected to the …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… (COD) and South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU), Labour Party and the Liberal Party organized and …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… (SACPO), and the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) meet in Kliptown, Soweto at the Congress of the People (COP). The SACTU becomes an active…
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… from the nationalist movement. 58 Yet the ANC, SACP and Sactu were endorsing only the poorly-organised UDF-affiliated … unions. This was needlessly limiting…
Farewell To His Comrades: Message, September 19, 1983
… a whole, assessing (re-defining if necessary) the role of SACTU, and ensuring that our future work in this vital field …
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… definite progress was being recorded. At the end of 1959 SACTU launched a new organizing campaign under the slogan £1 … slogan and 11 a day" caught on as an…
ArchiveCrush the Labour Bill
NACTU poster. Light brown with red lettering and NACTU logo. Red fist crushing the word crush.
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… of the ANC-aligned South African Congress of Trade Unions (Sactu) at Bolton Hall in Durban, headquarters of Tuacc activities. 67 Harold Nxasana, a former…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
Timeline 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane, is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of the Year Award. Albert Newall re…
EventMike Gatting's rebel cricket tour is curtailed
Negotiations between the National Sports Council (NSC) and the white South African Cricket Union (SACU) on the rebel cricket tour by Mike Gatting's England…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… substitute for the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) which, in the trade union field, bore the brunt of the … faces. On the one hand, it…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… Vuyisile Mini , Wilson Khayinga and Zinakile Mkhaba, SACTU leaders, are sentenced to death and executed . 1965 5 …
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
Negotiations between the National Sports Council (NSC) and the white South African Cricket Union (SACU) on the rebel cricket tour by Mike Gatting's England…
Address by Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the 40th Anniversary of the Execution of Vuyisile Mini and five others, 6 November 2004
… then Chief Albert Luthuli, that the "ANC is our shield and SACTU our spear". Therefore, when we remember and honour our …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… Island. 1980 South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) declares the year as the ‘Year of the Worker’. … with the ANC and South African Congress of…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… in exile; the "alliance" WQ5 now to refer to the anc, SACTU and the SACP. The conference also adopted a programme, … and military mandate. They established a…