Renewed questions have been raised about the role of the courts in relation to worker issues by a judgement affecting workers at the Union Co-operative sugar mill in Natal who were evicted from their hostels after a dispute at the plant last year.
Archive record
Union co-operative case: The law is on the bo

- Origin date
- February 1985
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Union co-operative case: The law is on the bo. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0106848
South African History Online (2016) 'Union co-operative case: The law is on the bo', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0106848 (Accessed: 30 July 2026).
South African History Online, Union co-operative case: The law is on the bo [website], https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0106848, (accessed 30 July 2026).
"Union co-operative case: The law is on the bo." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0106848. Accessed 30 July 2026.
South African History Online. "Union co-operative case: The law is on the bo." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/xh/ref/R-0106848.
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