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	South African trade unions: a historical account, 1970-90. - Encyclopedia.com
		The larger unions such as the National Union of Mineworkers and the National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa are attempting to move away from dependence on expensive labor lawyers in favor of training paralegal officers within union structures to fight cases in the Industrial Court.
		The South African trade union movement and the extraparliamentary groupings are in a state of transition, and political reform is moving at a heavy pace.
		The link between the National Council of Trade Unions and the Pan African Congress appears to be strengthening as the Pan African Congress adopts a distant, far less accommodating stance toward the African National Congress and exhibits a critical attitude towards the concept of negotiation in favor of an "all-or-nothing" approach.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-9214136.html (3812 words)

	African National Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Originally called the South African Native National Congress until 1923, it was founded to defend the rights of the fl majority on 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein, and counted John Dube (its first president) and poet and author Sol Plaatje among its founder members.
		In 1947 the ANC allied with the Natal Indian Congress and Transvaal Indian congress, broadening the basis of its opposition to the government.
		In April 1994, in a tripartite coalition with the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the ANC won a landslide victory in the 1994 general election, and Nelson Mandela was appointed the first President of South Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/African_National_Congress (1395 words)

	Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) statement on the anniversary of the death of Chris Hani (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The Congress of South African Trade Unions joins the millions of South African workers who are marking the 9th anniversary of the murder of the late General Secretary of the SACP, Comrade Chris Hani, on 10 April 1993.
		COSATU is taking forward the struggle for which Chris Hani died - in its campaigns against poverty and unemployment, its demand for the delivery of basic services to the poor, its fight for a living wage and the dignity of working people, its opposition to racism, imperialism and all other forms of oppression.
		As he said: “A new South Africa would be meaningless if the problems of the millions of poor people were not tackled… The perks of a new government are not really appealing to me. Everybody, of course, would like to have a good job, a good salary, and that sort of thing.
	www.peoplesvideo.org /cosatu_hani.htm (461 words)

	Encyclopedia: South African Communist Party
		The SACP is a partner of the Tripartite Alliance which consists of the African National Congress and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).
		The Deputy President of South Africa is appointed by the President of South Africa.
		Patient work by the ANC slowly rebuilt the organisation inside South Africa and it was the ANC, with communists in prominent positions, who were able to capitalize on the wave of anger that swept young South Africans during and after the Soweto Uprising of 1976.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/South-African-Communist-Party (2025 words)

	general strikes in south africa
		more than two millions workers responded to the call by the congress of south african trade unions (cosatu) for a 24 hour general strike in support of demands for better conditions of employment.
		most of these workers come from within the ranks of cosatu and the national council of trade unions (nactu), or are unaffiliated and unorganised.
		a 24 hour general strike was held on the 30th april in protest over the african national congress's attempt to include the bosses' "right" to lock-out and because of a clause protecting private property in the new constitution.
	www.sonic.net /~figgins/generalstrike/africa/southafrica.html (1202 words)

	African National Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Originally called the South African Native National Congress until 1923, it was founded to increase the rights of the South African fl population, on 8 January 1912 in Bloemfontein, and counted John Dube (its first president) and poet and author Sol Plaatje among its founding members.
		In June 1955, the Congress of the People, organised by the ANC and Indian, Coloured and White organizations at Kliptown near Johannesburg, adopted the Freedom Charter, henceforth the fundamental document of the anti-apartheid struggle with its demand for equal rights for all regardless of race.
		In April 1994, in a tripartite alliance with the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the ANC won a landslide victory in the 1994 general election, and Nelson Mandela was elected the first fl President of South Africa.
	www.wikipedia-mirror.co.za /a/f/r/African_National_Congress_8427.html (1978 words)

	THE FUTURE ROLE OF SOUTH AFRICAN TRADE UNIONS
		However, like most of their counterparts worldwide, South African trade unions will have little choice but to eventually accept the second approach of market orientation in addressing the challenges of globalisation, the underlying reason being that they don’t have the collective power-base, capacity or support to resist the impact of globalisation.
		Therefore, it can be expected that South African trade unions will adjust their labour strategy from one focusing on wealth redistribution only, to one of balancing wealth redistribution with wealth creation via the economic process at a microlevel – a paradigm shift which requires active engagement in the process through “joint governance”.
		Trade unions, especially the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) as the biggest representative trade union federation in South Africa, have played a major role as change agent in the “struggle” for a democratic South Africa, a workplace struggle which can be divided into four phases.
	general.rau.ac.za /aambeeld/november1999/AamN99-11.htm (2870 words)

	IALHI News Service: South African Trade Unions
		At the same time, the editors' choice of Volkswagen South Africa as a case of successful class compromise of a "co-determinist" kind is rather unfortunate, considering that this experiment has collapsed in 2001 amidst renewed waves of wildcat strikes in direct opposition to the co-operative and compromisory policy of the unions' leadership.
		In a context where South African social movements are just starting to relate to the waves of mobilization against corporate globalization, nowhere was this contradiction more evident, and at a more significant place, than in the 1999 Seattle round of WTO negotiations.
		There COSATU, as part of the official South African delegation, was calling for an "equitable reform" of a global institution whose very legitimacy was successfully contested by a host of insurgent social actors on the streets.
	www.iisg.nl /~ialhi/news/i0204_9.php (3271 words)

	Geoffrey Wood\| South African Trade Unions in a Time of Adjustment\| Labour/Le Travail, 47\| The History Cooperative
		Those unions operating in the growing number of industries outside of the ambit of Bargaining Councils have, first of all, to establish a firm presence at the workplace, in order to be entitled to these rights of organization.
		South African elections are, by global standards, rather expensive affairs, making it extremely difficult for a new left-wing party to have an impact on the electoral process, even if it was possible to agree on clear alternative policy alternatives.
		Whilst the unions may retain some of the characteristics of a social movement, it would be far more difficult to mobilise the rank and file against a democratically elected (and, clearly, popular) government than against an authoritarian state.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/47/06wood.html (6786 words)

	Reply to a defender of the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party
		Cosatu and the SACP receive very little support from the media in South Africa; rash denunciations in WSWS do no justice to the cause of workers in South Africa nor take their difficult position into consideration—there is no other party outside the ANC with any shred of socio-political credibility in South Africa.
		Vavi said that although Cosatu felt that the government had “gotten carried away”, it believed the ANC was still dedicated to improving the lot of all South Africans.
		Cosatu and the SACP are acutely conscious of the growing disaffection in the working class, and are concerned that the government may lose control of the situation.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/oct2001/sacp-o11_prn.shtml (1839 words)

	JOINT COMMUNIQUE OF ANC, COSATU AND SACTU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Delegations of the Executive of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) the National Executive Committee of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (Sactu) and the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) met in Lusaka on 5th and 6th March 1986.
		The meeting recognised that the emergence of Cosatu as the giant democratic and progressive trade union federation in our country is an historic event in the process of uniting our working class and will immeasurably strengthen the democratic movement as a whole.
		In the discussions between Cosatu and Sactu, both agreed that the widest possible unity of trade unions in our country is of utmost importance in our people's struggle against the apartheid regime and the bosses.
	www.anc.org.za /ancdocs/history/congress/sactu/docs/pr860307.html (993 words)

	World History Archives: The history of COSATU
		COSATU Public Service affiliated unions are happy about the turn out in the strike action and marches called today to protest against the government's recalcitrance with regard to the salary dispute in the public service.
		Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said that four of the original seven concerns raised as reasons for the national strike had not been addressed.
		Cosatu warns the government "there would be blood in the streets" if the proposed amendments to the Labour Relation Act (LRA), the Basic Conditions of Employment Act (BCEA) and the Insolvency Act, were passed into law.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/37a/index-ada.html (697 words)

	CorpWatch : South Africa: Trade Union Congress Losing Members
		JOHANNESBURG-- The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the largest labor federation in the country, says it is losing members because of high unemployment and an internal financial crisis.
		This development was revealed as COSATU heads for a showdown with the government over national economic policies, which include tight control of social spending and the privatization of state-owned enterprises.
		COSATU is planning to push for major changes to government economic policy at the Growth and Development Summit (GDS), where government, business and labor are planning to hammer out a way to kick-start economic growth and job creation in South Africa.
	www.corpwatch.org /article.php?id=6530 (773 words)

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		The United Democratic Movement is a South African political party, formed by a prominent former National Party leader, Roelf Meyer (who has since resigned from the UDM) and former African National Congress and homeland leader, Bantu Holomisa in 1997.
		As the South African economy developed and urban life started to assert its pre-eminence, the working class became central to the mass resistance, and the liberation movement acknowledged the leading role of this class as an essential part of its approach to struggle.
		It is an account of the trial, its effects on the family of one of the defendants and its implications for the struggle for a free South Africa.
	www.lycos.com /info/african-national-congress--south-africa.html (401 words)

	South Africa's Zimbabwe response faulted - Boston.com
		South African trade unions and church leaders called their government's tepid response to the political unrest in Zimbabwe shameful and damaging to South Africa's post-apartheid reputation as an advocate of human rights.
		JOHANNESBURG, South Africa --South African trade unions and church leaders called their government's tepid response to the political unrest in Zimbabwe shameful and damaging to South Africa's post-apartheid reputation as an advocate of human rights.
		South Africa has pursued what it calls a policy of "quiet diplomacy" with its northern neighbor, arguing that will do more to encourage reform in Zimbabwe than isolating its president, Robert Mugabe.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2007/03/13/south_africas_zimbabwe_response_faulted?mode=PF (446 words)

	COSATU in South Africa
		COSATU & South Africa's Elections By David Bacon If Nelson Mandela's African National Congress wins the first post-apartheid national elections in South Africa on April 27, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) will become the most powerful labor federation in Africa, and one of the most powerful in the world.
		Unions which refused, such as the South African Congress of Trade Unions, were driven into exile.
		COSATU and the ANC charge that as each step is taken in negotiations towards the end of the apartheid government, the attacks increase.
	www.nathannewman.org /EDIN/.labor/.files/.internat/.COSATU.html (1568 words)

	S Africa-Trade unions /WRD South African trade unions call for global solidarity against Israeli genocide - Irna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Unions in South Africa will embark on a program of marches and human chains before the Israeli embassy to demand that its ambassador go home, Madisha said.
		"Cosatu has gained experience in punishing the South African apartheid regime and it are going to use that experience to punish the Israeli regime" (for its current atrocities), she added.
		Cosatu demanded last week that South Africans set a national day of solidarity with the Palestinian people and observe it with rolling mass action.
	www.irna.ir /en/news/view/menu-235/0607209802112610.htm (478 words)

	South African Communist Party Congress
		The 11th Congress of the South African Communist Party (SACP), held from the 24th to the 28th of July 2002 in Rustenburg in the North West Province, was no exception.
		The union has declared an end to the short-lived truce with the government and two days before the beginning of the SACP Congress announced a 48-hour general strike on October 1st and 2nd against the privatisation policies of the government and to defend jobs.
		In his speech to the Congress, COSATU general secretary, Zwelinzima Vavi, warned that he wanted to be “very honest” in his input since he was speaking “as the representative of organised labour and workers will lose most if the Communist Party is indecisive, unclear or disorganised”.
	www.marxist.com /Africa/sacp_congress_rank_and_file.html (2225 words)

	International Solidarity Movement » President of South African Trade Unions Congress: “Israel is an ...
		President Willie Madisha, the head of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) yesterday issued an open letter in support of the Canadian CUPE’s recent unanimous resolution to support the international campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
		It is this solidarity, since the formation of the very first union and across space and time, often in the face of harsh repression, that provided vital moral succour and allowed workers to strengthen their resolve against oppression and exploitation.
		South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime.
	www.palsolidarity.org /main/2006/06/07/the-congress-of-south-african-trade-unions-issues-statement (571 words)

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		SACP, COSATU and SANCO are firmly behind the demand that debates must take place on reparations for the victims of slavery and racism and on Palestine and the Middle East.
		South Africa is a society of two nations - one powerful, wealthy and white, the other powerless, poor and fl, while at the same time a new gap is opening up between the small new fl capitalists and middle class and the rest of the African population.
		The developed countries must be committed to an international trade regime that benefits countries of the South, unlike the present situation that makes the Southern economies vulnerable to collapse at every stock market jitter in the developed countries.
	www.blythe.org /nytransfer-subs/2001rac/COSATU's_Memo_to_the_US_Govt (1008 words)

	About Cosatu
		COSATU was launched in December 1985 after four years of unity talks between unions opposed to apartheid and committed to a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa.
		COSATU believes in a democratic society free of racism, sexism and the exploitation of the working class.
		South African workers had embraced the day as their own.
	www.cosatu.org.za /aboutcos.htm (1457 words)

	CNN - South Africa faces biggest labor unrest since apartheid - August 24, 1999
		The unions are seeking wage hikes from 7.3 percent to 8.3 percent, depending on job categories.
		Some of the striking unions are affiliated with the predominantly fl Congress of South African Trade Unions, others with the Federation of Unions of South Africa, which has a large white membership.
		Union members stayed away from their jobs across South Africa and held protest marches in Cape Town, Durban and other cities to press home their wage-hike demands.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9908/24/south.africa.labor/index.html (367 words)

	brandchannel.com \| Proudly South African \| Branding Locally \| Boosting Local Economy \| Place Branding\| brands \| brand \| ...
		The Proudly South African brand campaign was launched in October 2001 with the goal of encouraging economic transformation and job growth in the country through the promotion of local products and services.
		Proudly South African brand executive Melanie Leloup says that the company is aiming to grow that awareness by three to four percent per year through what is referred to in-house as a “consumer education” campaign.
		South Africans are especially susceptible to the allure of overseas brands that for so long were the forbidden fruit under apartheid-era sanctions.
	www.brandchannel.com /features_effect.asp?pf_id=212 (2228 words)

	AEGiS-AFP News: SAfrica-AIDS: South Africa's "historic" AIDS treatment decision wins warm welcome - ...
		Professor Udo Schuklenk, a specialist on AIDS ethics at South Africa's University of the Witwatersrand, said the government had been extremely hesitant in implementing a treatment programme in the past, and that they were bound to engage in more "shenanigans" in the coming months.
		In April 2002, South Africa's highest court, the Constitutional Court, upheld a ruling by a lower court that by restricting the roll-out of the drug nevirapine, the government was violating the constitutional rights of women and their babies.
		In March, she recommended a combination of garlic, onions, virgin olive oil and the African potato to boost the immune systems of people with AIDS, despite a local immunology professor saying the concotion was potentially lethal.
	www.aegis.com /news/afp/2003/AF030845.html (814 words)

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