Call to boycott
- Grahamstown Action Group (GAG)
- Authors: Grahamstown Action Group (GAG)
- Date: 1985-09
- Subjects: South Africa -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century , Boycotts -- South Africa -- Grahamstown , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: text , tracts (ephemera)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57692 , vital:26981 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Pamphlet designed to elicit support from white residents in Grahamstown, in supporting the boycott of white-owned businesses as called by the residents of the "Grahamstown's African townships". The boycott was the third in 1985, and was intended to achieve specific outcomes, such as the end to the State of Emergency, the release of political detainees, and the lifting of the ban on public meetings.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1985-09
- Authors: Grahamstown Action Group (GAG)
- Date: 1985-09
- Subjects: South Africa -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century , Boycotts -- South Africa -- Grahamstown , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: text , tracts (ephemera)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57692 , vital:26981 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Pamphlet designed to elicit support from white residents in Grahamstown, in supporting the boycott of white-owned businesses as called by the residents of the "Grahamstown's African townships". The boycott was the third in 1985, and was intended to achieve specific outcomes, such as the end to the State of Emergency, the release of political detainees, and the lifting of the ban on public meetings.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1985-09
APDUSA Views
- Date: 1985-05
- Subjects: Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/33197 , vital:32546 , Bulk File 7
- Description: APDUSA Views was published by the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (Natal), an affiliate of the New Unity Movement.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1985-05
- Date: 1985-05
- Subjects: Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/33197 , vital:32546 , Bulk File 7
- Description: APDUSA Views was published by the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (Natal), an affiliate of the New Unity Movement.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1985-05
APDUSA Views
- Date: 1985-02
- Subjects: APDUSA , Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- History -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/32729 , vital:32316 , Bulk File 7
- Description: APDUSA Views was published by the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (Natal), an affiliate of the New Unity Movement.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1985-02
- Date: 1985-02
- Subjects: APDUSA , Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- History -- 20th century
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/32729 , vital:32316 , Bulk File 7
- Description: APDUSA Views was published by the African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (Natal), an affiliate of the New Unity Movement.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1985-02
Breeding condition of male red bishops under artificial photoperiods
- Authors: Craig, Adrian J F K
- Date: 1985
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447761 , vital:74672 , https://doi.org/10.1080/00306525.1985.9639572
- Description: Testis development, as indicated by bill colour changes, and moult were followed over two years in nine birds kept under constant conditions of 14 h light:10 h dark. All birds maintained at least partial nuptial dumage throughout this period, but most continued normal cycles of wing moult. The testes continued to show cycles of enlargement and regression.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1985
- Authors: Craig, Adrian J F K
- Date: 1985
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/447761 , vital:74672 , https://doi.org/10.1080/00306525.1985.9639572
- Description: Testis development, as indicated by bill colour changes, and moult were followed over two years in nine birds kept under constant conditions of 14 h light:10 h dark. All birds maintained at least partial nuptial dumage throughout this period, but most continued normal cycles of wing moult. The testes continued to show cycles of enlargement and regression.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1985
Premier food industries: unionization matrix
- Authors: Premier Food Industries Ltd
- Date: Oct 1985
- Subjects: Premier Food Industries Ltd
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117114 , vital:34479
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Oct 1985
- Authors: Premier Food Industries Ltd
- Date: Oct 1985
- Subjects: Premier Food Industries Ltd
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117114 , vital:34479
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Oct 1985
Rhodes University Staff Association : questions from members of staff to the Vice-Chancellor, November 1985
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1985
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7509 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018386
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1985
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1985
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7509 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018386
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1985
AZASO: tribute to women
- Authors: AZASO Western Cape Region
- Date: 1983?
- Subjects: Tamana, Dora , Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa , Women civil rights workers -- South Africa , Anti-apartheid activists -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66212 , vital:28918
- Description: As women in South Africa, it is important for us to understand the nature of our oppression, for it is only after understanding it, can we identify the target of our attack and plan the appropriate strategy and tactics for our struggle. Black women in South Africa suffer three types of oppression. 1. Political oppression, which is common to all blacks in South Africa, ie. the denial of rights to vote for or choose the type of government we want, and the denial of rights as a people in South Africa. 2. Economic oppression as black workers in South Africa. Black women workers are even more exploited than men workers. They are paid lower wages for the same job, are treated as temporary staff and can be fired at anytime especially if they fall pregnant. 3. Social oppression which stems from the idea that women are born inferior to men and therefore have to play an inferior role in society. The socialization process starts at birth and women and men are geared towards certain roles in society. Men most often towards leadership positions and professional jobs and women towards household duties and secretarial jobs. This socialization process continues throughout ones life such that most people accept it as a natural phenomenon and a way of life. Having understood the forms of oppression, we can see that the struggle is not between men and women, where men are seen as the source of our oppression. Nor is it a struggle for mechanical equality between men and women ie. being paid the same wages as men, and having equal status as men in society, because this will mean equality within the present status quo. Our struggle is a struggle between womenand the existing social order. It is a struggle of the oppressed against oppression. Our main weapons in the struggle for liberation are UNITY and ORGANISATION. Unity is realised through common effort, links are forged through collective work and study, through criticism and self-critcism and through action against opression. Organization can be achieved through women's groups and organization. A women's group's first demand should be the clarification of our ideas, to get rid of miscosepts and erroneous ideas concerning the role and liberation of women. A women's group usually tackles the question of social oppresion, but more important, it must be seen as a stepping stone towards involvement in the broader struggle can we destroy the foundations of exploitative society and rebuild society on new foundations. Foundations built on the demands of the FREEDOM CHARTER. “The fundamental struggle is for national liberation of the oppressed people of South Africa, and any women's organization that stands outside this struggle must stand apart from the mass of women. What was realised by the Federation of South African Women was that it would be impossible for women to achieve their rights as women in a society in which so many fundamental rights are denied to both men and women by virtue of their colour and their class. Therefore just as there can be no revolution without the liberation of women, the struggle for women's emancipation cannot succeed without the victory of the revolution".
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1983?
- Authors: AZASO Western Cape Region
- Date: 1983?
- Subjects: Tamana, Dora , Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa , Women civil rights workers -- South Africa , Anti-apartheid activists -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66212 , vital:28918
- Description: As women in South Africa, it is important for us to understand the nature of our oppression, for it is only after understanding it, can we identify the target of our attack and plan the appropriate strategy and tactics for our struggle. Black women in South Africa suffer three types of oppression. 1. Political oppression, which is common to all blacks in South Africa, ie. the denial of rights to vote for or choose the type of government we want, and the denial of rights as a people in South Africa. 2. Economic oppression as black workers in South Africa. Black women workers are even more exploited than men workers. They are paid lower wages for the same job, are treated as temporary staff and can be fired at anytime especially if they fall pregnant. 3. Social oppression which stems from the idea that women are born inferior to men and therefore have to play an inferior role in society. The socialization process starts at birth and women and men are geared towards certain roles in society. Men most often towards leadership positions and professional jobs and women towards household duties and secretarial jobs. This socialization process continues throughout ones life such that most people accept it as a natural phenomenon and a way of life. Having understood the forms of oppression, we can see that the struggle is not between men and women, where men are seen as the source of our oppression. Nor is it a struggle for mechanical equality between men and women ie. being paid the same wages as men, and having equal status as men in society, because this will mean equality within the present status quo. Our struggle is a struggle between womenand the existing social order. It is a struggle of the oppressed against oppression. Our main weapons in the struggle for liberation are UNITY and ORGANISATION. Unity is realised through common effort, links are forged through collective work and study, through criticism and self-critcism and through action against opression. Organization can be achieved through women's groups and organization. A women's group's first demand should be the clarification of our ideas, to get rid of miscosepts and erroneous ideas concerning the role and liberation of women. A women's group usually tackles the question of social oppresion, but more important, it must be seen as a stepping stone towards involvement in the broader struggle can we destroy the foundations of exploitative society and rebuild society on new foundations. Foundations built on the demands of the FREEDOM CHARTER. “The fundamental struggle is for national liberation of the oppressed people of South Africa, and any women's organization that stands outside this struggle must stand apart from the mass of women. What was realised by the Federation of South African Women was that it would be impossible for women to achieve their rights as women in a society in which so many fundamental rights are denied to both men and women by virtue of their colour and their class. Therefore just as there can be no revolution without the liberation of women, the struggle for women's emancipation cannot succeed without the victory of the revolution".
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1983?
The price of treason: Carl Niehaus: Wits student cum traitor
- Date: 1983?
- Subjects: Niehaus, Carl, 1959- , Political activists -- South Africa -- Biography , Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57705 , vital:26983 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Pamphlet outlining the crime of treason, and sentencing of Carl Niehaus (and his then fiancé Johanna Lourens) in 1983.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1983?
- Date: 1983?
- Subjects: Niehaus, Carl, 1959- , Political activists -- South Africa -- Biography , Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57705 , vital:26983 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Pamphlet outlining the crime of treason, and sentencing of Carl Niehaus (and his then fiancé Johanna Lourens) in 1983.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1983?
FOSATU - Policy motion on industrial councils
- FOSATU
- Authors: FOSATU
- Date: Nov 1981
- Subjects: FOSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118421 , vital:34627
- Description: FOSATU BELIEVES: Industrial Councils were established and have been developed to serve the interests of employers and a minority of workers. That most Industrial Councils are presently unrepresentative of the majority of workers and therefore undemocratic. That the Constitution and structure of most Industrial Councils reflects this un-representativeness and authoritarian base and it would be difficult for any small and democratic union to have an effect on Industrial Councils as they presently exist. That some Industrial Councils., because they are dominated by employers, misdirect workers' money collected either in the form of a levy or in benefit funds. That some Industrial Councils have blocked speedy solution to industrial problems by placing cumbersome procedures and bureaucratic structures in the way of direct negotiation between employers and workers.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Nov 1981
- Authors: FOSATU
- Date: Nov 1981
- Subjects: FOSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118421 , vital:34627
- Description: FOSATU BELIEVES: Industrial Councils were established and have been developed to serve the interests of employers and a minority of workers. That most Industrial Councils are presently unrepresentative of the majority of workers and therefore undemocratic. That the Constitution and structure of most Industrial Councils reflects this un-representativeness and authoritarian base and it would be difficult for any small and democratic union to have an effect on Industrial Councils as they presently exist. That some Industrial Councils., because they are dominated by employers, misdirect workers' money collected either in the form of a levy or in benefit funds. That some Industrial Councils have blocked speedy solution to industrial problems by placing cumbersome procedures and bureaucratic structures in the way of direct negotiation between employers and workers.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Nov 1981
Vice Chancellor's Address to staff, 1980
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1980
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7438 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018315
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1980
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1980
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7438 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1018315
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1980
Rhodes Staff Association : questions for the Vice-Chancellor
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1979
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7394 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017283
- Description: Rhodes Staff Association : questions for the Vice-Chancellor, 1979
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1979
- Authors: Henderson, Derek Scott
- Date: 1979
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:7394 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1017283
- Description: Rhodes Staff Association : questions for the Vice-Chancellor, 1979
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1979
The structure of aliphatic amine adducts of uranyl acetylacetonate. II. Dioxobis(2,4-pentanedionato)mono (2-N,N-dimethylaminopentan-4-one)uranium(VI)
- Nassimbeni, L R, Orpen, G, Pauptit, R A, Rodgers, Allen L, Haigh, John M
- Authors: Nassimbeni, L R , Orpen, G , Pauptit, R A , Rodgers, Allen L , Haigh, John M
- Date: 1977
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: vital:6416 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006533
- Description: Introduction: In a previous analysis of a compound of this type, we have established that the adduct molecule is bonded through O and that the geometry about U is pentagonal bipyramidal (Haigh, Nassimbeni, Pauptit, Rodgers & Sheldrick, 1976). We have carried out the present analysis to study the conformational effects on the ligand brought about by substitution at N.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1977
- Authors: Nassimbeni, L R , Orpen, G , Pauptit, R A , Rodgers, Allen L , Haigh, John M
- Date: 1977
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: vital:6416 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006533
- Description: Introduction: In a previous analysis of a compound of this type, we have established that the adduct molecule is bonded through O and that the geometry about U is pentagonal bipyramidal (Haigh, Nassimbeni, Pauptit, Rodgers & Sheldrick, 1976). We have carried out the present analysis to study the conformational effects on the ligand brought about by substitution at N.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1977
The structure of aliphatic amine adducts of uranyl acetylacetonate. III. Dioxobis(2,4-pentanedionato)mono (2-N-isopropylaminopentan-4-one)uranium(VI)
- Rodgers, A L, Nassimbeni, L R, Haigh, John M
- Authors: Rodgers, A L , Nassimbeni, L R , Haigh, John M
- Date: 1977
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: vital:6419 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006552
- Description: Introduction: In two earlier structural determinations of compounds of this type we have shown that the conformation of the adduct moiety is dependent on the formation of intramolecular N-H...0 hydrogen bonds (part I: Haigh, Nassimbeni, Pauptit, Rodgers & Sheldrick, 1976; part II: Nassimbeni, Orpen, Pauptit, Rodgers & Haigh, 1977). We have carried out the present analysis to study the conformational effects on the ligand brought about by the steric influence of an isopropyl substituent at N.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1977
- Authors: Rodgers, A L , Nassimbeni, L R , Haigh, John M
- Date: 1977
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: vital:6419 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006552
- Description: Introduction: In two earlier structural determinations of compounds of this type we have shown that the conformation of the adduct moiety is dependent on the formation of intramolecular N-H...0 hydrogen bonds (part I: Haigh, Nassimbeni, Pauptit, Rodgers & Sheldrick, 1976; part II: Nassimbeni, Orpen, Pauptit, Rodgers & Haigh, 1977). We have carried out the present analysis to study the conformational effects on the ligand brought about by the steric influence of an isopropyl substituent at N.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1977
The structure of aliphatic amine adducts of uranyl acetylacetonate. IV. Dioxobis(2,4-pentanedionato) mono(2-aminopentan-4-one)uranium(VI)
- Rodgers, A L, Nassimbeni, L R, Pauptit, R A, Orpen, G, Haigh, John M
- Authors: Rodgers, A L , Nassimbeni, L R , Pauptit, R A , Orpen, G , Haigh, John M
- Date: 1977
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: vital:6420 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006555
- Description: Introduction: We have shown in three earlier determinations of aliphatic amine adducts of U02(AA)2 (part I: Haigh, Nassimbeni, Pauptit, Rodgers & Sheldrick, 1976; part II: Nassimbeni, Orpen, Pauptit, Rodgers & Haigh, 1977; part III: Rodgers, Nassimbeni & Haigh, 1977) that the conformation of the adduct is dependent on its ability to form hydrogen bonds. The present compound has two H atoms available for hydrogen bonding and may be regarded as the parent of the series.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1977
- Authors: Rodgers, A L , Nassimbeni, L R , Pauptit, R A , Orpen, G , Haigh, John M
- Date: 1977
- Language: English
- Type: text , Article
- Identifier: vital:6420 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006555
- Description: Introduction: We have shown in three earlier determinations of aliphatic amine adducts of U02(AA)2 (part I: Haigh, Nassimbeni, Pauptit, Rodgers & Sheldrick, 1976; part II: Nassimbeni, Orpen, Pauptit, Rodgers & Haigh, 1977; part III: Rodgers, Nassimbeni & Haigh, 1977) that the conformation of the adduct is dependent on its ability to form hydrogen bonds. The present compound has two H atoms available for hydrogen bonding and may be regarded as the parent of the series.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1977
The structure of aliphatic amine adducts of uranyl acetylacetonate. I. Dioxobis(2,4-pentanedionato)mono (2-N-methylaminopentan-4-one)uranium(VI)
- Haigh, John M, Nassimbeni, Luigi R, Pauptit, Richard A, Rodgers, Allen L, Sheldrick, George M
- Authors: Haigh, John M , Nassimbeni, Luigi R , Pauptit, Richard A , Rodgers, Allen L , Sheldrick, George M
- Date: 1976
- Subjects: Aliphatic amine adducts , Uranyl acetylacetonate
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: vital:6373 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006077
- Description: Crystals of the title compound are monoclinic with a= 8.314 (5), b= 22.723 (9), c= 12.589 (6) A, /3= 123.0 (2t, Z=4, space group P2dc. The structure was determined by Patterson and Fourier methods and refined by full-matrix least squares to a final R of 0.030 for 2043 independent reflexions. The U atom has pentagonal bipyramidal coordination and the N-methylacetylacetoneamine is bonded to U via O. There are two intramolecular N-H. . .0 hydrogen bonds which govern the geometry of the adduct molecule.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1976
- Authors: Haigh, John M , Nassimbeni, Luigi R , Pauptit, Richard A , Rodgers, Allen L , Sheldrick, George M
- Date: 1976
- Subjects: Aliphatic amine adducts , Uranyl acetylacetonate
- Language: English
- Type: Article , text
- Identifier: vital:6373 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006077
- Description: Crystals of the title compound are monoclinic with a= 8.314 (5), b= 22.723 (9), c= 12.589 (6) A, /3= 123.0 (2t, Z=4, space group P2dc. The structure was determined by Patterson and Fourier methods and refined by full-matrix least squares to a final R of 0.030 for 2043 independent reflexions. The U atom has pentagonal bipyramidal coordination and the N-methylacetylacetoneamine is bonded to U via O. There are two intramolecular N-H. . .0 hydrogen bonds which govern the geometry of the adduct molecule.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1976
Indigenous plants in public parks and gardens
- Authors: Rycroft, H B
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Plants -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71794 , vital:29951
- Description: Extract from The 1957 Conference Report of “Park Administration", in which the then Director of the National Botanical Gardens of South Africa, Professor H B Rycroft, appeals to the inclusion of South African indigenous plants in public parks and gardens.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1957
- Authors: Rycroft, H B
- Date: 1957
- Subjects: Plants -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , ephemera
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/71794 , vital:29951
- Description: Extract from The 1957 Conference Report of “Park Administration", in which the then Director of the National Botanical Gardens of South Africa, Professor H B Rycroft, appeals to the inclusion of South African indigenous plants in public parks and gardens.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1957
No to IMF
- CANSA
- Authors: CANSA
- Date: 19--?
- Subjects: International Monetary Fund , International finance -- Government policy , Economic development -- Political aspects
- Language: eng
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/77015 , vital:30655
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 19--?
- Authors: CANSA
- Date: 19--?
- Subjects: International Monetary Fund , International finance -- Government policy , Economic development -- Political aspects
- Language: eng
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/77015 , vital:30655
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 19--?
NUMSA Report - Motor industry negotiations
- NUMSA
- Authors: NUMSA
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113106 , vital:33707
- Description: Today the bosses can see that workers are standing up for their rights. Their organisations are growing. 230 000 metal workers are united in NUMSA and more than 1 million workers are united in COSATU. The united power of workers have forced the bosses to accept changes to the vicious LRA. The united voice of the oppressed and exploited people have forced the bosses government to unban our organisations. And so the workers voice demanding control over their own lives is growing stronger day by day. The bosses can see that the workers have a plan. That workers are marching along a road which will lead them to victory and freedom. But the bosses too come with their own plan. And the bosses plan is aimed at protecting and increasing their profits and priviledges. The bosses plan is trying to force the workers to walk along the road of deregulation and increased profits for the bosses. This plan is seeking to divide workers and so to break their strength. The bosses plan aims to undermine centralised bargaining. They are scared to face the united power of motor workers. So they try to shift bargaining to plant and company level.
- Full Text:
- Authors: NUMSA
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113106 , vital:33707
- Description: Today the bosses can see that workers are standing up for their rights. Their organisations are growing. 230 000 metal workers are united in NUMSA and more than 1 million workers are united in COSATU. The united power of workers have forced the bosses to accept changes to the vicious LRA. The united voice of the oppressed and exploited people have forced the bosses government to unban our organisations. And so the workers voice demanding control over their own lives is growing stronger day by day. The bosses can see that the workers have a plan. That workers are marching along a road which will lead them to victory and freedom. But the bosses too come with their own plan. And the bosses plan is aimed at protecting and increasing their profits and priviledges. The bosses plan is trying to force the workers to walk along the road of deregulation and increased profits for the bosses. This plan is seeking to divide workers and so to break their strength. The bosses plan aims to undermine centralised bargaining. They are scared to face the united power of motor workers. So they try to shift bargaining to plant and company level.
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NUMSA workers build co-operatives
- NUMSA
- Authors: NUMSA
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/114271 , vital:33961
- Description: There are two main co-operative activities that are supported by NUMSA. The one is SAWCO in Natal and the other is the project that is starting here in the East Cape. Does NUMSA have a policy on co-operatives? NUMSA in its Central Committee has taken a decision to support co-ops. But NUMSA is still busy thinking of how we can formulate a policy on co-operatives. We are working towards such a policy. So what is NUMSA's aim in giving support to co-ops? In other words, how can organised workers benefit from the support that NUMSA is giving to these co-op activities? Interview with Cde John Gomomo NUMSA East Cape Regional Chairperson We, the organised workers on the shop floor are becoming more and more mobilised and politicised. We do not believe that the struggle should just end on the shop floor. The struggle of organised workers should also benefit the community. Co-operatives is such an activity that can be of interest to all groups of oppressed people. We, the organised workers with all the skills we have gathered in the organisation, we believe that if we take the lead, co-ops could be fully democratised organisations in the community.
- Full Text:
- Authors: NUMSA
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/114271 , vital:33961
- Description: There are two main co-operative activities that are supported by NUMSA. The one is SAWCO in Natal and the other is the project that is starting here in the East Cape. Does NUMSA have a policy on co-operatives? NUMSA in its Central Committee has taken a decision to support co-ops. But NUMSA is still busy thinking of how we can formulate a policy on co-operatives. We are working towards such a policy. So what is NUMSA's aim in giving support to co-ops? In other words, how can organised workers benefit from the support that NUMSA is giving to these co-op activities? Interview with Cde John Gomomo NUMSA East Cape Regional Chairperson We, the organised workers on the shop floor are becoming more and more mobilised and politicised. We do not believe that the struggle should just end on the shop floor. The struggle of organised workers should also benefit the community. Co-operatives is such an activity that can be of interest to all groups of oppressed people. We, the organised workers with all the skills we have gathered in the organisation, we believe that if we take the lead, co-ops could be fully democratised organisations in the community.
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Smash the Labour Relations Act
- Authors: COSATU, NACTU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
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- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110322 , vital:33263
- Description: The South African state is facing a serious political crisis. Apartheid policies have been decisively rejected by the majority of citizens. The state is only able to retain power by force; by the declaration of the state of emergency, by detentions, by putting the SADF in the townships and by suppressing all opposition. These measures will eventually be defeated. But the state and the ruling class also face a critical economic crisis. This is linked to the political crisis. The capitalist class is trying to solve the economic crisis by squeezing even more profits out of the working class. To do this the capitalist class needs to keep wages down and to replace more and more workers by machines.
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- Authors: COSATU, NACTU
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110322 , vital:33263
- Description: The South African state is facing a serious political crisis. Apartheid policies have been decisively rejected by the majority of citizens. The state is only able to retain power by force; by the declaration of the state of emergency, by detentions, by putting the SADF in the townships and by suppressing all opposition. These measures will eventually be defeated. But the state and the ruling class also face a critical economic crisis. This is linked to the political crisis. The capitalist class is trying to solve the economic crisis by squeezing even more profits out of the working class. To do this the capitalist class needs to keep wages down and to replace more and more workers by machines.
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