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FOFATUSA was linked with the Pan-African Congress, and also affiliated to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, which funded many of its activities. [3] Lucy Mvubelo was appointed as its president, while Jacob Nyaose became its general secretary, and Sarah Chitja was national secretary.
By 1954 SATLC was disbanded, and with the formation of the Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) union membership included white, coloured, and Asians, with blacks in dependent organizations. Independent black unions were excluded from affiliation and 14 previous unions from SATLC founded the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU ...
It argued for an independent trade union movement of and led by black workers. As such, it refused to work with the Trade Union Council of South Africa , which was led by white workers and had at times expelled unions of black workers, and while some members had links with the South African Congress of Trade Unions , BAWU's leadership disliked ...
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 union was founded in 1975 to represent black workers in the industry. It affiliated to the Black Consultative Committee, [1] and then to the Council of Unions of South Africa. It had 9,200 members by 1981, [2] growing to 27,264 in 1986, [3] with a particular strength around Gauteng, where it was the leading union in the industry. [4]
The experience led it to change its name to the "Trade Union Council of South Africa", to avoid any similarity of names with the confederation it had left. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] In 1962, TUCSA changed its statues to allow "black unions" to affiliate, but in 1965 the Amalgamated Engineering Union of South Africa (AEU) disaffiliated in protest at this.
The Azanian Confederation of Trade Unions (AZACTU) was a national trade union federation in South Africa. The federation was established in 1984, with eight affiliates, representing a total of 75,000 black workers.
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) is a trade union federation in South Africa. It was founded in 2017, and is the second largest of the country's main trade union confederations , with 21 affiliated trade unions organising 800,000 workers.