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In 1986 he was part of a Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) delegation that met with the African National Congress (ANC) in Lusaka, and in 1989 was again in a COSATU group that briefed Nelson Mandela in prison. He was a member of the founding committee of COSATU in 1985, [1] [2] and was president of that organisation from 1991 to ...
[1] [2] Beginning on 9 January 1973, mass strikes broke out in Durban and continued for three months until the end of March. [3] [1] The strikes involved roughly 60 000 African workers and impacted more than 100 firms. [4] The highest number of strikes occurred on the outskirts of Durban in textile, metal and chemical plants. [2]
A COSATU organised protest in Cape Town calling for an end to state capture and for the prosecution of those involved in the administration of President Jacob Zuma. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU or Cosatu) is a trade union federation in South Africa. It was founded in 1985 and is the largest of the country's three main ...
SACTU organised a campaign for a national minimum wage of £1 (R2) a day in 1957 with the South African Railways and Harbours Union as a central focus. In 1961, it organised two major strikes in Durban , one at the Lion Match Company, and one at the King George V Hospital, which led to the formation of the Hospital Workers' Union.
The federation was formed at a congress over the weekend of 14–15 April 1979 in Hammanskraal and officially launched five days later on 20 April. [1] [2] Its roots lay in the unions which had emerged from the spontaneous 1973 strike wave by black workers in Durban and Pinetown as part of the "Durban Moment", [3] and which had since been part of the Trade Union Advisory Co-ordinating Council ...
The Tripartite Alliance is an alliance between the African National Congress (ANC), the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The ANC holds a plurality in the South African parliament , while the SACP and COSATU have not contested any democratic election in South Africa.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) is the biggest single trade union in South Africa with more than 338,000 members, and prior to its expulsion on 8 November 2014, the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the country's largest trade union federation. [1] [2] [3]
The federation was formed by the merger of the Council of Unions of South Africa (CUSA) and the Azanian Confederation of Trade Unions (AZACTU) in 1986. [1]: 488 In its early years, the federation was strongly influenced by the black consciousness movement, but was divided in its attitude to the African National Congress.