Biggest strike in T&G history
- Authors: COSATU, TGWU
- Date: July 1990
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115514 , vital:34151
- Description: Cleaners in T&G Natal are angry and want to see change now! So cleaners from 11 different companies came together and decided to make demands to the bosses. On 25 May about 3000 cleaners came out on strike, but by the middle of the strike about 7000 cleaners were on strike. Most of the strikers were women. The most important demand was for a living wage. In the Durban area the wage determination gives cleaners R379 a month. But many bosses pay less than R379 and these bosses know it is against the law. On top of the low wage the bosses make cleaners buy their own uniforms, but the wage determination says the bosses must buy these uniforms. All of the strikers come from contract cleaning companies like Sneller, Supercare, Pritchards, Regent, Mrs Mop, Clean-It, Keep Clean, North Coast Cleaners, Floline, and Durban Property Services. These companies send cleaners out to clean in other companies and get money in return. But cleaners see little of the money their bosses make from their hard work.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: July 1990
- Authors: COSATU, TGWU
- Date: July 1990
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115514 , vital:34151
- Description: Cleaners in T&G Natal are angry and want to see change now! So cleaners from 11 different companies came together and decided to make demands to the bosses. On 25 May about 3000 cleaners came out on strike, but by the middle of the strike about 7000 cleaners were on strike. Most of the strikers were women. The most important demand was for a living wage. In the Durban area the wage determination gives cleaners R379 a month. But many bosses pay less than R379 and these bosses know it is against the law. On top of the low wage the bosses make cleaners buy their own uniforms, but the wage determination says the bosses must buy these uniforms. All of the strikers come from contract cleaning companies like Sneller, Supercare, Pritchards, Regent, Mrs Mop, Clean-It, Keep Clean, North Coast Cleaners, Floline, and Durban Property Services. These companies send cleaners out to clean in other companies and get money in return. But cleaners see little of the money their bosses make from their hard work.
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- Date Issued: July 1990
Bulimia Nervosa: a case study in cognitive psychotherapy
- Authors: Kanfer, Josephine
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/192988 , vital:45287
- Description: This project uses the case-study method to illustrate the application of integrating varied accepted modes of psychotherapeutic interventions. It concentrates on the first 22 out-patient sessions of therapy with a diagnosed bulimic, spanning a 6 month period. A brief summary of the subsequent 10 follow-up sessions is also given. The case presented is of a 22 year old female student diagnosed as bulimic (of 7 year duration), dysthymic and with a dependent personality disorder. She has symptoms of anxiety. She has a history of anorexia nervosa. Fairburn's (1985) cognitive-behavioural programme for bulimia was used initially. Its structured framework with the emphasis on the eating behaviour was an essential aspect in contributing to the success of the initial phase of the therapy. This patient had had previously experienced 8 sessions of non-directive depth psychotherapy which had confused and compounded her problems. The structure had provided her with a sense of control. In implementing the second stage of Fairburn's programme, where the focus is cognitive, the patient could no longer work in this this structured manner. The attempts to implement the standard cognitive techniques provided the catalyst for activating deeper underlying emotions and cognitions. Furthermore, this gave impetus to work actively with the interpersonal aspect of the therapeutic relationship. Young's (1989) model for identifying Early Maladaptive Schemas could be applied. The focus then moved from the behaviours and dealt with these schemas as activated in the therapeutic relationship. The patient was able to make links to her family and her past. The therapy proved successful, as not only were the behavioural symptoms alleviated, but also the patient's interpersonal problems which underlay her personality disorder were accessed. The patient had become more self-assertive, her mood had improved considerably, she was less concerned with body image and more accepting of herself. She had become more reality based and her interpersonal relational abi1ity had improved. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology, 1990
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1990
- Authors: Kanfer, Josephine
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/192988 , vital:45287
- Description: This project uses the case-study method to illustrate the application of integrating varied accepted modes of psychotherapeutic interventions. It concentrates on the first 22 out-patient sessions of therapy with a diagnosed bulimic, spanning a 6 month period. A brief summary of the subsequent 10 follow-up sessions is also given. The case presented is of a 22 year old female student diagnosed as bulimic (of 7 year duration), dysthymic and with a dependent personality disorder. She has symptoms of anxiety. She has a history of anorexia nervosa. Fairburn's (1985) cognitive-behavioural programme for bulimia was used initially. Its structured framework with the emphasis on the eating behaviour was an essential aspect in contributing to the success of the initial phase of the therapy. This patient had had previously experienced 8 sessions of non-directive depth psychotherapy which had confused and compounded her problems. The structure had provided her with a sense of control. In implementing the second stage of Fairburn's programme, where the focus is cognitive, the patient could no longer work in this this structured manner. The attempts to implement the standard cognitive techniques provided the catalyst for activating deeper underlying emotions and cognitions. Furthermore, this gave impetus to work actively with the interpersonal aspect of the therapeutic relationship. Young's (1989) model for identifying Early Maladaptive Schemas could be applied. The focus then moved from the behaviours and dealt with these schemas as activated in the therapeutic relationship. The patient was able to make links to her family and her past. The therapy proved successful, as not only were the behavioural symptoms alleviated, but also the patient's interpersonal problems which underlay her personality disorder were accessed. The patient had become more self-assertive, her mood had improved considerably, she was less concerned with body image and more accepting of herself. She had become more reality based and her interpersonal relational abi1ity had improved. , Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology, 1990
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- Date Issued: 1990
Commission of Inquiry into Oukasie Violence
- UDF
- Authors: UDF
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: UDF
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250651 , vital:52035
- Description: In June 1990, the United Democratic Front [UDF] appointed Brian Cumin, National Director of Lawyers for Human Rights as Commissioner to investigate and report on the reasons for the violence in Oukasie Township, Brits, since February 1986. Brian Cumin was empowered to appoint additional Commissioners to assist him. David Bam and Mpho Molefe, both practising Attorneys in Pretoria were duly appointed as co-commissioners. As part of their report on the reasons for the violence in Oukasie, the Commissioners have taken the liberty of making recommendations to the United Democratic Front.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1990
- Authors: UDF
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: UDF
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/250651 , vital:52035
- Description: In June 1990, the United Democratic Front [UDF] appointed Brian Cumin, National Director of Lawyers for Human Rights as Commissioner to investigate and report on the reasons for the violence in Oukasie Township, Brits, since February 1986. Brian Cumin was empowered to appoint additional Commissioners to assist him. David Bam and Mpho Molefe, both practising Attorneys in Pretoria were duly appointed as co-commissioners. As part of their report on the reasons for the violence in Oukasie, the Commissioners have taken the liberty of making recommendations to the United Democratic Front.
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- Date Issued: 1990
Congress takes strong resolutions
- Authors: COSATU, TGWU
- Date: Feb 1990
- Subjects: COSATU, TGWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115536 , vital:34153
- Description: T&G Congress is over for another 2 years. Now we have the task of acting on the important resolutions that Congress took. About 400 delegates came to the Congress at Pietermaritzburg University to take our union forward into the 1990s. Comrade Harry Gwala, a member of SACP and ANC, and comrade Pozo Zondo, an organiser from NOW (Natal Organisation of Women), came to speak to the Congress. Comrade Gwala pointed out that the working class in tiie factories and townships and rural areas will win the struggle. The working class must lead this struggle. Church people, sports people, peasants and intellectuals must also take their part. We must work towards socialism because without socialism there will still be many problems. Gwala said socialism is still alive. The marches in Eastern Europe in most countries are to make for a better and more democratic socialism. Comrade Gwala said that it is the duty of all union members to make a people’s democracy under the leadership of the working class. We can only enter negotiations with the government if the working class is in a very strong position.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Feb 1990
- Authors: COSATU, TGWU
- Date: Feb 1990
- Subjects: COSATU, TGWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115536 , vital:34153
- Description: T&G Congress is over for another 2 years. Now we have the task of acting on the important resolutions that Congress took. About 400 delegates came to the Congress at Pietermaritzburg University to take our union forward into the 1990s. Comrade Harry Gwala, a member of SACP and ANC, and comrade Pozo Zondo, an organiser from NOW (Natal Organisation of Women), came to speak to the Congress. Comrade Gwala pointed out that the working class in tiie factories and townships and rural areas will win the struggle. The working class must lead this struggle. Church people, sports people, peasants and intellectuals must also take their part. We must work towards socialism because without socialism there will still be many problems. Gwala said socialism is still alive. The marches in Eastern Europe in most countries are to make for a better and more democratic socialism. Comrade Gwala said that it is the duty of all union members to make a people’s democracy under the leadership of the working class. We can only enter negotiations with the government if the working class is in a very strong position.
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- Date Issued: Feb 1990
COSATU Regional education programme
- COSATU
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154403 , vital:39695
- Description: This document should be used by ail of us involved in Education as a basis for discussion on organising education in the Federation. We have pulled together all the relevant information and reccommen- dations which we hope will assist Led- comm, Educators and our constitutional structures in understanding what our tasks are in the locals and in affiliates. The Redcomm agreed that an Education Programme must go beyond being just a number of workshops and seminars. It must be a dynamic process which must contribute to the strengthening of our structures, improving the quality of our debates and promoting leadership of the working class in our struggle for democracy.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1990
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/154403 , vital:39695
- Description: This document should be used by ail of us involved in Education as a basis for discussion on organising education in the Federation. We have pulled together all the relevant information and reccommen- dations which we hope will assist Led- comm, Educators and our constitutional structures in understanding what our tasks are in the locals and in affiliates. The Redcomm agreed that an Education Programme must go beyond being just a number of workshops and seminars. It must be a dynamic process which must contribute to the strengthening of our structures, improving the quality of our debates and promoting leadership of the working class in our struggle for democracy.
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- Date Issued: 1990
DIMES Review - Vol 3
- COSATU
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: Mar 1990
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135457 , vital:37268
- Description: In 1652 the Dutch came to this land. Initially he sought to arrest refreshments for his ships that went to the east. Soon he realised that the land was good for them to settle. In settling he infringed on the way of life of the peoples living on this land destroying the social and cultural fabric of a peaceful society. Slowly but surely the wars of dispossession began. The land that was once the black mans was now in foreign hands. All that was in abundance was reduced to scarcity .People resisted but they were put down . Our history is shameful that it is drenched in blood. The Act of Union instead of bringing people together seperated and we remain seperated today. The 1913 Land Act instead of giving people back their land took it away from them. From 1910 to 1970 something like 200 laws were passed legislating against black people. The numerous pass laws restricting movement of people from one place to the other heaped indignity upon indignity on the black people. Workers suffered, they always do! They have to turn the wheels that produce the energy that makes South Africa turn. Over the years, with the dispossession of land, African people were drawn into wage labour. This was not a voluntary process. The goverment brought about Laws that asked money from people called taxes - hut tax, poll tax, dog tax etc. Prior to the formation of the Industrail and Commercial Workers Union strikes were a rare industrial relations exercise. With increased unionisation workers started to become aware that the laws passed by the government was to facilitate an economic end. That is why the ICU became embroiled in politics. Workers were affected by Apartheid laws that acted as leeches, sucking blood of the workers and draining them of their energy. They demonstrated against these laws. COSATU was launched in the same vein challenging the State to scrap apartheid - pass laws. Today we do not live in a new South Africa,the new is yet to come. The South Africa we live in is however, old and dying - decay has set in. History is a constant reminder of her shameful past - a past that will never be blotted out but can only act as an impetus to strive towards change. The Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act, the Seperate Amenities Act are all geared to political and social separation of the masses. We have become victims of these laws
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Mar 1990
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: Mar 1990
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/135457 , vital:37268
- Description: In 1652 the Dutch came to this land. Initially he sought to arrest refreshments for his ships that went to the east. Soon he realised that the land was good for them to settle. In settling he infringed on the way of life of the peoples living on this land destroying the social and cultural fabric of a peaceful society. Slowly but surely the wars of dispossession began. The land that was once the black mans was now in foreign hands. All that was in abundance was reduced to scarcity .People resisted but they were put down . Our history is shameful that it is drenched in blood. The Act of Union instead of bringing people together seperated and we remain seperated today. The 1913 Land Act instead of giving people back their land took it away from them. From 1910 to 1970 something like 200 laws were passed legislating against black people. The numerous pass laws restricting movement of people from one place to the other heaped indignity upon indignity on the black people. Workers suffered, they always do! They have to turn the wheels that produce the energy that makes South Africa turn. Over the years, with the dispossession of land, African people were drawn into wage labour. This was not a voluntary process. The goverment brought about Laws that asked money from people called taxes - hut tax, poll tax, dog tax etc. Prior to the formation of the Industrail and Commercial Workers Union strikes were a rare industrial relations exercise. With increased unionisation workers started to become aware that the laws passed by the government was to facilitate an economic end. That is why the ICU became embroiled in politics. Workers were affected by Apartheid laws that acted as leeches, sucking blood of the workers and draining them of their energy. They demonstrated against these laws. COSATU was launched in the same vein challenging the State to scrap apartheid - pass laws. Today we do not live in a new South Africa,the new is yet to come. The South Africa we live in is however, old and dying - decay has set in. History is a constant reminder of her shameful past - a past that will never be blotted out but can only act as an impetus to strive towards change. The Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act, the Seperate Amenities Act are all geared to political and social separation of the masses. We have become victims of these laws
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- Date Issued: Mar 1990
Economic Policy Seminar
- NACTU
- Authors: NACTU
- Date: July 1990
- Subjects: NACTU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138635 , vital:37658
- Description: This department decided to retain the current 1990/1 budget figure of R7bn for curative health and administration costs. A further R2.1bn was proposed for preventative health care. The total health budget is therefore R9.1bn. Primary Health Care (PHC) will be an addition to the health budget. The PHC addition is R1.4bn, which will cover training of PHC workers; the cost of purchasing the ten identified common medicines and drugs that will be mass produced and the cost of setting up informal rural clinics. A further addition to the health budget is the setting up and equiping local Rehabilitation Centres (RC). R0.7bn is allocated for these centres. Speech therapy, physiotherapy and such medical science disciplines will be located at the local RC so as to ease the pressure on hosipitals. The setting up Industrial Hosipitals (IH) which will be located in the industrial areas will be assisted by the health department. The IH must be viewed as an alternative to "medical aid", that workers are increasingly demanding in collective bargaining. Instead IH would be set up in industrial areas serving the factories in those areas. These IH will controlled by workers and management with the health department playing only an advisory and inspectionary role.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: July 1990
- Authors: NACTU
- Date: July 1990
- Subjects: NACTU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/138635 , vital:37658
- Description: This department decided to retain the current 1990/1 budget figure of R7bn for curative health and administration costs. A further R2.1bn was proposed for preventative health care. The total health budget is therefore R9.1bn. Primary Health Care (PHC) will be an addition to the health budget. The PHC addition is R1.4bn, which will cover training of PHC workers; the cost of purchasing the ten identified common medicines and drugs that will be mass produced and the cost of setting up informal rural clinics. A further addition to the health budget is the setting up and equiping local Rehabilitation Centres (RC). R0.7bn is allocated for these centres. Speech therapy, physiotherapy and such medical science disciplines will be located at the local RC so as to ease the pressure on hosipitals. The setting up Industrial Hosipitals (IH) which will be located in the industrial areas will be assisted by the health department. The IH must be viewed as an alternative to "medical aid", that workers are increasingly demanding in collective bargaining. Instead IH would be set up in industrial areas serving the factories in those areas. These IH will controlled by workers and management with the health department playing only an advisory and inspectionary role.
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- Date Issued: July 1990
How Fidelity Guards live!
- Authors: COSATU, TGWU
- Date: Apr 1990
- Subjects: COSATU, TGWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115569 , vital:34178
- Description: UNTIL last month Fidelity Guards (FG) was owned by a very big transport company, the Rennies Group. FG workers live in an old mine hostel. This is how this rich company housed its workers. T&G NEWS went to the West Rand Fidelity Guards Hostel. 325 men workers live in this hostel. These workers come from many places like Transkei, Pietersburg, Qwa Qwa and Gazankulu. Their families cannot live with them in the hostel because there is no place for famines to stay. And women and children cannot come inside the hostel. No privacy The hostel was built early in the 1900s. It is dirty, old, broken down, smells bad, and everywhere flies buzz around. The hostel is far from shops and transport is difficult. There are no phones to speak to families and at Christmas often the FG office does not deliver telegrammes. In each room 16 workers live and sleep. Both day and night shift workers are in one room. This means there is always noise. For example, if a worker is off-duty he brings friends into the room to drink and talk. This wakes up other sleeping workers.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Apr 1990
- Authors: COSATU, TGWU
- Date: Apr 1990
- Subjects: COSATU, TGWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115569 , vital:34178
- Description: UNTIL last month Fidelity Guards (FG) was owned by a very big transport company, the Rennies Group. FG workers live in an old mine hostel. This is how this rich company housed its workers. T&G NEWS went to the West Rand Fidelity Guards Hostel. 325 men workers live in this hostel. These workers come from many places like Transkei, Pietersburg, Qwa Qwa and Gazankulu. Their families cannot live with them in the hostel because there is no place for famines to stay. And women and children cannot come inside the hostel. No privacy The hostel was built early in the 1900s. It is dirty, old, broken down, smells bad, and everywhere flies buzz around. The hostel is far from shops and transport is difficult. There are no phones to speak to families and at Christmas often the FG office does not deliver telegrammes. In each room 16 workers live and sleep. Both day and night shift workers are in one room. This means there is always noise. For example, if a worker is off-duty he brings friends into the room to drink and talk. This wakes up other sleeping workers.
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- Date Issued: Apr 1990
ICEF Energy conference
- CWIU
- Authors: CWIU
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: CWIU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152450 , vital:39279
- Description: The decline in world energy consumption caused by the twin oil price hikes of 1973 and 1979 checked development in the major market economies and triggered the process of industrial restructuring that has so profoundly affected all sectors and all regions. ore efficient use of more expensive energy and strategic policy changes have made major contributions to easing the historical reliance upon energy inputs - especially in the case of oil. As a result the ratio between energy consumption and growth of gross world production has diminished by nearly 25 % over the past fifteen years. It has been estimated that full use of available energy-efficient technologies could cut per capita energy use by as much as 50% without impeding economic growth. The extent to which these gains are realized will depend upon a wide variety of economic and developmental factors, among which the price management of fuels is a very important one. here has also been a change in the industrial mix of the major OECD economies with the decline of old industries using high energy imputs and the rise of high technology sectors with different and lower energy requirements. The shift of much basic manufacturing to new locations in the developing world and to the hitherto centrally planned economies is likely to precipitate a further important change in energy requirements. emand for energy is forecast to continue to grow at only about half the rate of general economic growth over the short to medium term. Consumption is very uneven on a world scale, however. In 1988 the world consumed energy equivalent to some 8 billion tonnes of oil (Tonnes Oil Equivalent, or TOE) - an average of 1.3 tonnes for every man, woman and child on Earth. While citizens of the USA will consume an average of 8 TOE per capita, however, the average for both Japan and Western Europe is around 3 TOE, while people in the Third World still rely on fuelwood and dried animal dung as important energy resources, consuming only a small fraction of a TOE each in many cases.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1990
- Authors: CWIU
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: CWIU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/152450 , vital:39279
- Description: The decline in world energy consumption caused by the twin oil price hikes of 1973 and 1979 checked development in the major market economies and triggered the process of industrial restructuring that has so profoundly affected all sectors and all regions. ore efficient use of more expensive energy and strategic policy changes have made major contributions to easing the historical reliance upon energy inputs - especially in the case of oil. As a result the ratio between energy consumption and growth of gross world production has diminished by nearly 25 % over the past fifteen years. It has been estimated that full use of available energy-efficient technologies could cut per capita energy use by as much as 50% without impeding economic growth. The extent to which these gains are realized will depend upon a wide variety of economic and developmental factors, among which the price management of fuels is a very important one. here has also been a change in the industrial mix of the major OECD economies with the decline of old industries using high energy imputs and the rise of high technology sectors with different and lower energy requirements. The shift of much basic manufacturing to new locations in the developing world and to the hitherto centrally planned economies is likely to precipitate a further important change in energy requirements. emand for energy is forecast to continue to grow at only about half the rate of general economic growth over the short to medium term. Consumption is very uneven on a world scale, however. In 1988 the world consumed energy equivalent to some 8 billion tonnes of oil (Tonnes Oil Equivalent, or TOE) - an average of 1.3 tonnes for every man, woman and child on Earth. While citizens of the USA will consume an average of 8 TOE per capita, however, the average for both Japan and Western Europe is around 3 TOE, while people in the Third World still rely on fuelwood and dried animal dung as important energy resources, consuming only a small fraction of a TOE each in many cases.
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- Date Issued: 1990
Let us speak of freedom
- University of the Western Cape, Department of History
- Authors: University of the Western Cape, Department of History
- Date: [1990?]
- Subjects: Black people -- South Africa -- Politics and government , Black nationalism -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , Labour Unions -- South Africa , Capitalism -- South Africa , Socialism -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74620 , vital:30321
- Description: The struggle reaches back to the days of the first white settlement in our country. In this chapter we will look at some of these traditions of our struggle. We will learn more about the people who were in South Africa when the settlers came, and how they fought bravely to live in peace on their land. We will also read about the many changes that happened, particularly after diamonds and gold were discovered and how people continued to struggle against the new conditions that made their lives even harder. , “We call the farmers of the reserves and trust lands. Let us speak of the wide land, and the narrow strips on which we toil. Let us speak of brothers without land, and of children without schooling. Let us speak of taxes and of cattle, and of famine. LET US SPEAK OF FREEDOM.”
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: [1990?]
- Authors: University of the Western Cape, Department of History
- Date: [1990?]
- Subjects: Black people -- South Africa -- Politics and government , Black nationalism -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , Labour Unions -- South Africa , Capitalism -- South Africa , Socialism -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/74620 , vital:30321
- Description: The struggle reaches back to the days of the first white settlement in our country. In this chapter we will look at some of these traditions of our struggle. We will learn more about the people who were in South Africa when the settlers came, and how they fought bravely to live in peace on their land. We will also read about the many changes that happened, particularly after diamonds and gold were discovered and how people continued to struggle against the new conditions that made their lives even harder. , “We call the farmers of the reserves and trust lands. Let us speak of the wide land, and the narrow strips on which we toil. Let us speak of brothers without land, and of children without schooling. Let us speak of taxes and of cattle, and of famine. LET US SPEAK OF FREEDOM.”
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: [1990?]
Living wage structures, demands and strategies for 1990
- SACCAWU
- Authors: SACCAWU
- Date: Feb 1990
- Subjects: SACCAWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117943 , vital:34576
- Description: The living wage campaign falls under the jurisdiction of the SACCAWU organising and collective bargaining unit. The unit is divided into two sectors, commercial and catering, with co-ordinators for both sectors at national and branch level. The national and branch co-ordinators are responsible for implementing the living wage campaign. Quarterly meetings of all organising and collective bargaining unit co-ordinators are scheduled to be held to monitor and evaluate progress. A national workshop of all negotiators and delegates from the union's negotiating committees was held in January. This workshop carried out planning and formulated strategies on various aspects related to living wage activities and campaigns for this year. Another national workshop is scheduled to be held in November.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Feb 1990
- Authors: SACCAWU
- Date: Feb 1990
- Subjects: SACCAWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/117943 , vital:34576
- Description: The living wage campaign falls under the jurisdiction of the SACCAWU organising and collective bargaining unit. The unit is divided into two sectors, commercial and catering, with co-ordinators for both sectors at national and branch level. The national and branch co-ordinators are responsible for implementing the living wage campaign. Quarterly meetings of all organising and collective bargaining unit co-ordinators are scheduled to be held to monitor and evaluate progress. A national workshop of all negotiators and delegates from the union's negotiating committees was held in January. This workshop carried out planning and formulated strategies on various aspects related to living wage activities and campaigns for this year. Another national workshop is scheduled to be held in November.
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- Date Issued: Feb 1990
Metalworkers prepare to Fight for a Living Wage
- NUMSA
- Authors: NUMSA
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110675 , vital:33321
- Description: The NUMSA 1990 Living Wage Campaign is starting to move. After a slow start NUMSA members are gearing up for the big fight. We are going through big changes in South Africa. We want to tell the bosses and De Klerk: the workers will never end the struggle lor a Living Wage, jobs for all, houses for all, proper health care for all. De Klerk must meet our demands. We want to end the system that gives the bosses freedom to exploit workers. Our battle cry this year is: Our Industry, Our Country, Forward to Workers' Control. In February this year NUMSA/Es National Bargaining Conference set-out the workers demand.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1990
- Authors: NUMSA
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110675 , vital:33321
- Description: The NUMSA 1990 Living Wage Campaign is starting to move. After a slow start NUMSA members are gearing up for the big fight. We are going through big changes in South Africa. We want to tell the bosses and De Klerk: the workers will never end the struggle lor a Living Wage, jobs for all, houses for all, proper health care for all. De Klerk must meet our demands. We want to end the system that gives the bosses freedom to exploit workers. Our battle cry this year is: Our Industry, Our Country, Forward to Workers' Control. In February this year NUMSA/Es National Bargaining Conference set-out the workers demand.
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- Date Issued: 1990
MORB-related dolerites associated with the final phases of Karoo flood basalt volcanism in southern Africa.
- Duncan, Andrew R, Armstrong, R A, Erlank, Anthony J, Marsh, Julian S, Watkins, R T
- Authors: Duncan, Andrew R , Armstrong, R A , Erlank, Anthony J , Marsh, Julian S , Watkins, R T
- Date: 1990
- Language: English
- Type: text , conference paper
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143299 , vital:38222 , https://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetailampidt=6938249
- Description: The Rooi Rand dyke swarm is approximately 200km long and up to 20km wide. It crops out in the southern portion of the Lebombo monocline where the dykes intrude basalts of the Sabie River Basalt Formation which is the major basaltic unit in the eastern portion of the Karoo volcanic succession. The Horingbaai dolerites form thin dykes and sills which intrude the base of the Etendeka lava pile (considered part of the Karoo Volcanics, but correlated with the Serra Geral Formation of Brazil) along the coast of Namibia. Both the Rooi Rand and Horingbaai magma types are similar in composition to enriched MORB and are compositionally distinct from most of the Karoo-basalts they intrude.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1990
- Authors: Duncan, Andrew R , Armstrong, R A , Erlank, Anthony J , Marsh, Julian S , Watkins, R T
- Date: 1990
- Language: English
- Type: text , conference paper
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/143299 , vital:38222 , https://pascal-francis.inist.fr/vibad/index.php?action=getRecordDetailampidt=6938249
- Description: The Rooi Rand dyke swarm is approximately 200km long and up to 20km wide. It crops out in the southern portion of the Lebombo monocline where the dykes intrude basalts of the Sabie River Basalt Formation which is the major basaltic unit in the eastern portion of the Karoo volcanic succession. The Horingbaai dolerites form thin dykes and sills which intrude the base of the Etendeka lava pile (considered part of the Karoo Volcanics, but correlated with the Serra Geral Formation of Brazil) along the coast of Namibia. Both the Rooi Rand and Horingbaai magma types are similar in composition to enriched MORB and are compositionally distinct from most of the Karoo-basalts they intrude.
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- Date Issued: 1990
New T&G Office Bearers
- Authors: COSATU, TGWU
- Date: Oct 1990
- Subjects: COSATU, TGWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115435 , vital:34129
- Description: People think taxi drivers earn a lot of money. But this is not true. Taxi owners earn the money and employ drivers to do the hard driving. These taxi owners pay the drivers low wages, and give drivers very bad work conditions. About a year ago T&G in the Vaal started organising taxi drivers. Then in August this year about 300 taxi drivers came out on T&G’s first ever taxi strike. The strike went on for 5 days. One of the most important demands in the strike was for a living wage of R250 a week. Drivers were getting between R150 a week and R120 every 2 weeks. And most taxi drivers are on duty 16 hours a day for 7 days a week! The biggest bosses’ taxi association in the Vaal is Region 8 ofSabta. Sabta started talking to the union and the union forced the taxi bosses to recognise the union. The bosses will now meet workers in an on-going Joint Committee. The Committee will talk about things like UIF, leave, hours of work, and one bosses’ association for the Vaal (there are over 7 at the moment). Drivers won a weekly minimum wage of R150 for driving a 15 seater taxi, and the bosses will now use the Passenger Transport Wage Determination around other conditions of work. The bosses agreed to a 6 day week and an end to the quota system. Under the quota system drivers had to bring in R200 a day or face lower wages or dismissal. Many drivers suffer from bad back pains, and when drivers have accidents the bosses do not pay for medical treatment. So the bosses agreed to pay for medical treatment and to look into a medical aid scheme for drivers. We salute the taxi drivers for their important victory! The taxi industry is an example of the state’s policy of deregulation. This deregulation means there is very little protection for taxiworkers. But the union is going to make sure that there is some protection for taxi drivers. This is the beginning of an organised taxi industry in South Africa!
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- Date Issued: Oct 1990
- Authors: COSATU, TGWU
- Date: Oct 1990
- Subjects: COSATU, TGWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115435 , vital:34129
- Description: People think taxi drivers earn a lot of money. But this is not true. Taxi owners earn the money and employ drivers to do the hard driving. These taxi owners pay the drivers low wages, and give drivers very bad work conditions. About a year ago T&G in the Vaal started organising taxi drivers. Then in August this year about 300 taxi drivers came out on T&G’s first ever taxi strike. The strike went on for 5 days. One of the most important demands in the strike was for a living wage of R250 a week. Drivers were getting between R150 a week and R120 every 2 weeks. And most taxi drivers are on duty 16 hours a day for 7 days a week! The biggest bosses’ taxi association in the Vaal is Region 8 ofSabta. Sabta started talking to the union and the union forced the taxi bosses to recognise the union. The bosses will now meet workers in an on-going Joint Committee. The Committee will talk about things like UIF, leave, hours of work, and one bosses’ association for the Vaal (there are over 7 at the moment). Drivers won a weekly minimum wage of R150 for driving a 15 seater taxi, and the bosses will now use the Passenger Transport Wage Determination around other conditions of work. The bosses agreed to a 6 day week and an end to the quota system. Under the quota system drivers had to bring in R200 a day or face lower wages or dismissal. Many drivers suffer from bad back pains, and when drivers have accidents the bosses do not pay for medical treatment. So the bosses agreed to pay for medical treatment and to look into a medical aid scheme for drivers. We salute the taxi drivers for their important victory! The taxi industry is an example of the state’s policy of deregulation. This deregulation means there is very little protection for taxiworkers. But the union is going to make sure that there is some protection for taxi drivers. This is the beginning of an organised taxi industry in South Africa!
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- Date Issued: Oct 1990
NUMSA Bulletin - Free at last
- NUMSA
- Authors: NUMSA
- Date: Feb 1990
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/114032 , vital:33880
- Description: NUMSA structures take many decisions. These decisions are not taken in isolation, they are influenced by events, information and debates. The decisions taken will be found in the official documents and reports of NUMSA committees and congresses. These decisions are NUMSA policy. However, as part of the education programme, the Bulletin will carry background articles. These articles are not policy but are part of the educational resources of NUMSA.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Feb 1990
- Authors: NUMSA
- Date: Feb 1990
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/114032 , vital:33880
- Description: NUMSA structures take many decisions. These decisions are not taken in isolation, they are influenced by events, information and debates. The decisions taken will be found in the official documents and reports of NUMSA committees and congresses. These decisions are NUMSA policy. However, as part of the education programme, the Bulletin will carry background articles. These articles are not policy but are part of the educational resources of NUMSA.
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- Date Issued: Feb 1990
NUMSA in 1990 - Grow, lead and move to financial self-sufficiency
- NUMSA
- Authors: NUMSA
- Date: Feb 1990
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113010 , vital:33685
- Description: NUMSA is fully committed to playing an active role in the liberation of the working class and ending the oppression of our people. To do this we have set ourselves certain very important tasks in 1990. They are: To strengthen and democratise our union in order to improve conditions for our members, To actively work in our federation COSATU to strengthen it an to greatly improve our working relationship with other affiliates. To contribute to the liberation struggle by using our strength together with the MDM to defeat oppression and exploitation To play an active role in the community struggles in our land particularly in areas such as the Natal violence To actively contribute to developing programmes for a future South Africa based on democracy and socialist planning to improve the lives of all people, To make our organisation administratively efficient and to develop the skills of leadership, organisers and administrators. To become financially self-sufficient.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Feb 1990
- Authors: NUMSA
- Date: Feb 1990
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/113010 , vital:33685
- Description: NUMSA is fully committed to playing an active role in the liberation of the working class and ending the oppression of our people. To do this we have set ourselves certain very important tasks in 1990. They are: To strengthen and democratise our union in order to improve conditions for our members, To actively work in our federation COSATU to strengthen it an to greatly improve our working relationship with other affiliates. To contribute to the liberation struggle by using our strength together with the MDM to defeat oppression and exploitation To play an active role in the community struggles in our land particularly in areas such as the Natal violence To actively contribute to developing programmes for a future South Africa based on democracy and socialist planning to improve the lives of all people, To make our organisation administratively efficient and to develop the skills of leadership, organisers and administrators. To become financially self-sufficient.
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- Date Issued: Feb 1990
Questions on wage policy
- Authors: Labour Research Services
- Date: Mar 1990
- Subjects: Labour Research Services
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139460 , vital:37740
- Description: The question here is: should skill and training be rewarded with higher wages? If the answer is yes, how much extra should a worker get if he moves from a lower-skilled job to a higher- skilled job? How can divisions between workers be avoided? If the answer is no, how will the union be able to prevent employers from paying higher wages to skilled workers who are in short supply? Let us take the grade continuum as running from unskilled labourer to artisan. How many grades should there be in between? If there are many grades, confusion is likely as it will be difficult to tell the difference between one job and another. If there are too few grades, low-skilled workers will never move out of the bottom grade. In the iron and steel industrial agreement, there are twelve grades. In the clothing industry in Cape Town, twenty five different jobs are listed. Under the Paterson grading system, there are only nine grades between labourer and artisan. NUMSA has demanded that the number of grades in the auto industry be reduced from as many as eleven to only five.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Mar 1990
- Authors: Labour Research Services
- Date: Mar 1990
- Subjects: Labour Research Services
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139460 , vital:37740
- Description: The question here is: should skill and training be rewarded with higher wages? If the answer is yes, how much extra should a worker get if he moves from a lower-skilled job to a higher- skilled job? How can divisions between workers be avoided? If the answer is no, how will the union be able to prevent employers from paying higher wages to skilled workers who are in short supply? Let us take the grade continuum as running from unskilled labourer to artisan. How many grades should there be in between? If there are many grades, confusion is likely as it will be difficult to tell the difference between one job and another. If there are too few grades, low-skilled workers will never move out of the bottom grade. In the iron and steel industrial agreement, there are twelve grades. In the clothing industry in Cape Town, twenty five different jobs are listed. Under the Paterson grading system, there are only nine grades between labourer and artisan. NUMSA has demanded that the number of grades in the auto industry be reduced from as many as eleven to only five.
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- Date Issued: Mar 1990
Religious experience and schizophrenia in modern man : an experiential theoretical study
- Borchardt, Frederick Francois
- Authors: Borchardt, Frederick Francois
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: Schizophrenia -- Religious aspects , Experience (Religion) -- Psychological aspects
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2897 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002061
- Description: In this study the psychological structures of two categories of religious and schizophrenic experience were examined from a phenomenological- existential perspective. Existing theories describe schizophrenia as an unfree, rigid experience with limited possibilities for selfhood. Some theorists believe, however, that some forms of schizophrenia can be seen as potential growth experiences which could facilitate existential renewal. These forms of schizophrenia are mystical, mythical or spiritual in nature. Religious experiences are, according to the literature, essentially renewal experiences facilitating existential growth and transformation through a particular system of thought and devotional relationship shared by a group of people. The Duquesne phenomenological- psychological method was used to analyse seven case studies, four of which involved schizophrenic experiences and three which involved religious conversion experiences. The general psychological structure which emerged through this analysis showed both schizophrenia and religious experience to have specific implications for the personal, social, material and mystical dimensions of being. The description of a specific psychological structure of experience which could optimally facilitate existential growth and transformation was attained by examining psychological structures where the subject's experience culminated in existential growth and transformation (such as religious experience and certain schizophrenIc experiences). As both these categories of experience displayed a strong mystical component, a psychological structure of experience which facilitates a transformative mystical experience was described. It can be concluded that an experience involving a mystical dimension could be transformative if the general psychological structure of the person displays (a) an openness towards reality as it presents itself (b) an experience of oneself as having a measure of existential freedom (c) a certain sense of security in one's own selfhood and (d) a social world which could understand, support and reflect inner experiences.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1990
- Authors: Borchardt, Frederick Francois
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: Schizophrenia -- Religious aspects , Experience (Religion) -- Psychological aspects
- Language: English
- Type: text , Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2897 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002061
- Description: In this study the psychological structures of two categories of religious and schizophrenic experience were examined from a phenomenological- existential perspective. Existing theories describe schizophrenia as an unfree, rigid experience with limited possibilities for selfhood. Some theorists believe, however, that some forms of schizophrenia can be seen as potential growth experiences which could facilitate existential renewal. These forms of schizophrenia are mystical, mythical or spiritual in nature. Religious experiences are, according to the literature, essentially renewal experiences facilitating existential growth and transformation through a particular system of thought and devotional relationship shared by a group of people. The Duquesne phenomenological- psychological method was used to analyse seven case studies, four of which involved schizophrenic experiences and three which involved religious conversion experiences. The general psychological structure which emerged through this analysis showed both schizophrenia and religious experience to have specific implications for the personal, social, material and mystical dimensions of being. The description of a specific psychological structure of experience which could optimally facilitate existential growth and transformation was attained by examining psychological structures where the subject's experience culminated in existential growth and transformation (such as religious experience and certain schizophrenIc experiences). As both these categories of experience displayed a strong mystical component, a psychological structure of experience which facilitates a transformative mystical experience was described. It can be concluded that an experience involving a mystical dimension could be transformative if the general psychological structure of the person displays (a) an openness towards reality as it presents itself (b) an experience of oneself as having a measure of existential freedom (c) a certain sense of security in one's own selfhood and (d) a social world which could understand, support and reflect inner experiences.
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- Date Issued: 1990
Rhodes University Graduation Ceremony 1990
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1990
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8124 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005707
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies on Friday, 6 April 1990 at 8 p.m. [and] on Saturday, 7 April 1990 at 10 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument. , Rhodes University East London Graduation Ceremony Saturday; 12 May 1990 at 11.30 a.m. in the Guild Theatre.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1990
- Authors: Rhodes University
- Date: 1990
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: vital:8124 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1005707
- Description: Rhodes University Graduation Ceremonies on Friday, 6 April 1990 at 8 p.m. [and] on Saturday, 7 April 1990 at 10 a.m. in the 1820 Settlers National Monument. , Rhodes University East London Graduation Ceremony Saturday; 12 May 1990 at 11.30 a.m. in the Guild Theatre.
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- Date Issued: 1990
SACTWU - Shop Stewards Bulletin Vol 1 No.1
- SACTWU
- Authors: SACTWU
- Date: May 1990
- Subjects: SACTWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116907 , vital:34457
- Description: SO wrote Bertolt Brecht, a German poet of the working people, in his famous poem “In Praise Of Learning”. Today, many years later, South Africa’s factories are filled with hungry persons, fighting for a living wage. One powerful weapon in that fight is knowledge. SACTWU hassetuptheEducationDep artm en t to meet the need for an educated worker leadership. This Bulletin is brought out to help arm worker leaders - with information, fresh ideas, new thoughts, skills - to fight the battle for a new South Africa. The Bulletin will carry articles on issues in the factory and outside of it. All issues which affect workers. Our lives are bigger than the factory only. It will carry stories on events in South Africa and also outside our country. The world today is small. Events in one country can affect people in another. Workers must take on interest in the whole world. It will seek to develop a thinking leadership, not one which follows blindly.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: May 1990
- Authors: SACTWU
- Date: May 1990
- Subjects: SACTWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116907 , vital:34457
- Description: SO wrote Bertolt Brecht, a German poet of the working people, in his famous poem “In Praise Of Learning”. Today, many years later, South Africa’s factories are filled with hungry persons, fighting for a living wage. One powerful weapon in that fight is knowledge. SACTWU hassetuptheEducationDep artm en t to meet the need for an educated worker leadership. This Bulletin is brought out to help arm worker leaders - with information, fresh ideas, new thoughts, skills - to fight the battle for a new South Africa. The Bulletin will carry articles on issues in the factory and outside of it. All issues which affect workers. Our lives are bigger than the factory only. It will carry stories on events in South Africa and also outside our country. The world today is small. Events in one country can affect people in another. Workers must take on interest in the whole world. It will seek to develop a thinking leadership, not one which follows blindly.
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- Date Issued: May 1990