NUMSA Motor News - Employers out to smash Industrial Council
- NUMSA
- Authors: NUMSA
- Date: July 1993
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/114111 , vital:33926
- Description: WHILE wage negotiations with employers are deadlocked, there are more serious rumours that some employers are trying to smash the Motor Industrial Council and so break down centralised bargaining. They are acting just like other employers and the government who want to destroy centralised bargaining. They see it as a way to weaken the power of workers. COSATU decided early this year to fight against these moves. NUMS A is committed to centralised bargaining. It bargains centrally in all the industries where it organises - motor, auto, engineering and tyre. The collapse of the IC in the motor sector would encourage employers in other NUMSA industries to smash the other central bargaining forums. This would defeat all the gains we have made over the years. Motor workers must lead the way in squashing employers’ wishes.
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- Date Issued: July 1993
- Authors: NUMSA
- Date: July 1993
- Subjects: NUMSA
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/114111 , vital:33926
- Description: WHILE wage negotiations with employers are deadlocked, there are more serious rumours that some employers are trying to smash the Motor Industrial Council and so break down centralised bargaining. They are acting just like other employers and the government who want to destroy centralised bargaining. They see it as a way to weaken the power of workers. COSATU decided early this year to fight against these moves. NUMS A is committed to centralised bargaining. It bargains centrally in all the industries where it organises - motor, auto, engineering and tyre. The collapse of the IC in the motor sector would encourage employers in other NUMSA industries to smash the other central bargaining forums. This would defeat all the gains we have made over the years. Motor workers must lead the way in squashing employers’ wishes.
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- Date Issued: July 1993
Winter absconding as a dispersal mechanism of the Cape honeybee
- Hepburn, H Randall, Villet, Martin H, Jones, Georgina E, Carter, A, Simon, V, Coetzer, W
- Authors: Hepburn, H Randall , Villet, Martin H , Jones, Georgina E , Carter, A , Simon, V , Coetzer, W
- Date: 1993
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6862 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011154
- Description: The dispersal characteristics of the African honeybee, Apis mellifera scutellata, resulted in a greatly mobile hybrid front in the New World, but in Africa its hybridization zone with the Cape honeybee, Apis mellifera capensis, appears very stable.The maintenance of stable hybrid zones is predicated on a balance between dispersal and selection Knowledge on the extent of gene flow from either race is in its infancy, and the probability of successful dispersal by either race has not yet been considered. Both capensis and scutellata are notorious for absconding, capensis the more so for resource-related seasonal absconding in winter. The two races also differ fundamentally in the ways they conserve heat both behaviourally and physiologically. We investigated the energy consumption and colony survival characteristics of capensis in terms of winter absconding in a climate with cycles of warm days interspersed with cold days. These are compared with calculated values for scutellata to assess whether capensis might have a directional gene flow advantage over scutellata in their zone of hybridization.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1993
- Authors: Hepburn, H Randall , Villet, Martin H , Jones, Georgina E , Carter, A , Simon, V , Coetzer, W
- Date: 1993
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6862 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1011154
- Description: The dispersal characteristics of the African honeybee, Apis mellifera scutellata, resulted in a greatly mobile hybrid front in the New World, but in Africa its hybridization zone with the Cape honeybee, Apis mellifera capensis, appears very stable.The maintenance of stable hybrid zones is predicated on a balance between dispersal and selection Knowledge on the extent of gene flow from either race is in its infancy, and the probability of successful dispersal by either race has not yet been considered. Both capensis and scutellata are notorious for absconding, capensis the more so for resource-related seasonal absconding in winter. The two races also differ fundamentally in the ways they conserve heat both behaviourally and physiologically. We investigated the energy consumption and colony survival characteristics of capensis in terms of winter absconding in a climate with cycles of warm days interspersed with cold days. These are compared with calculated values for scutellata to assess whether capensis might have a directional gene flow advantage over scutellata in their zone of hybridization.
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- Date Issued: 1993
Updated information of SITE
- TURP
- Authors: TURP
- Date: Nov 1992
- Subjects: TURP
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139726 , vital:37773
- Description: Since 1988 most workers in South Africa have had their wages taxed under the SITE system. SITE stands for Standard Income Tax on Employees. Under SITE the employer is responsible for making sure that workers pay the correct amount of tax. The Receiver of Revenue is not directly involved. Workers are now the only people who can check up on their employers to make sure that the correct amount of tax is being taken off their wages. So, it has become very important that workers know about SITE and how it works.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Nov 1992
- Authors: TURP
- Date: Nov 1992
- Subjects: TURP
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/139726 , vital:37773
- Description: Since 1988 most workers in South Africa have had their wages taxed under the SITE system. SITE stands for Standard Income Tax on Employees. Under SITE the employer is responsible for making sure that workers pay the correct amount of tax. The Receiver of Revenue is not directly involved. Workers are now the only people who can check up on their employers to make sure that the correct amount of tax is being taken off their wages. So, it has become very important that workers know about SITE and how it works.
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- Date Issued: Nov 1992
Cde Alfred freed
- Authors: COSATU, TGWU
- Date: Feb 1991
- Subjects: COSATU, TGWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115525 , vital:34152
- Description: Last year TGWU signed the first recognition agreement in South Africa for African seaman with Unicorn Line. In the past T&G signed agreements with shipping companies but these agreements covered shore workers and not workers at sea. Unicorn Line is a big national shipping company in the Grinrod Group of companies with 11 ships carrying cargo up and down the coast. Seamen work under dangerous and bad conditions with low pay. Seamen are out at sea for long periods away from their homes and families. Unicorn Line contracts out seamen to do work for a British company called Cu- nard. Cunard pay Unicorn Rl,729 a month for the seaman and Unicorn only pay the seamen R675 a month! It is also unjust because shore- based Unicorn workers earn R879 a month. Now we are negotiating wages for the first time for these seamen. The bosses gave the union a 20% increase on the minimum wage of R675. The union is also demanding a 25% increase for all workers, and the bosses are offering between 15% and 17% The bosses say that workers do not need a higher wage because they can do a lot of overtime and earn good wages! Seaman often have to work 176 hours overtime a month!
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Feb 1991
- Authors: COSATU, TGWU
- Date: Feb 1991
- Subjects: COSATU, TGWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115525 , vital:34152
- Description: Last year TGWU signed the first recognition agreement in South Africa for African seaman with Unicorn Line. In the past T&G signed agreements with shipping companies but these agreements covered shore workers and not workers at sea. Unicorn Line is a big national shipping company in the Grinrod Group of companies with 11 ships carrying cargo up and down the coast. Seamen work under dangerous and bad conditions with low pay. Seamen are out at sea for long periods away from their homes and families. Unicorn Line contracts out seamen to do work for a British company called Cu- nard. Cunard pay Unicorn Rl,729 a month for the seaman and Unicorn only pay the seamen R675 a month! It is also unjust because shore- based Unicorn workers earn R879 a month. Now we are negotiating wages for the first time for these seamen. The bosses gave the union a 20% increase on the minimum wage of R675. The union is also demanding a 25% increase for all workers, and the bosses are offering between 15% and 17% The bosses say that workers do not need a higher wage because they can do a lot of overtime and earn good wages! Seaman often have to work 176 hours overtime a month!
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- Date Issued: Feb 1991
Information Digest - Number 10 - Focus on COSATU Campaigns Conference
- COSATU
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: Mar 1991
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110194 , vital:33246
- Description: Three hundred delegates from COSATU’s 14 affiliates and nine regions met on the 9th and 10th March to discuss COSATU’s Campaigns programme of action for 1991. The Conference decided that the major campaigns for the year will be: Campaign for a Constituent Assembly and Interim government closely linked to a Campaign for Workers Rights in a new Constitution. Campaign for job security and job creation entitled: "Jobs for ail - no retrenchments" Campaign for the extension of the Labour Relations Act to farm, domestic and public sector workers as weil as workers in the Bantustans.
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- Date Issued: Mar 1991
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: Mar 1991
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110194 , vital:33246
- Description: Three hundred delegates from COSATU’s 14 affiliates and nine regions met on the 9th and 10th March to discuss COSATU’s Campaigns programme of action for 1991. The Conference decided that the major campaigns for the year will be: Campaign for a Constituent Assembly and Interim government closely linked to a Campaign for Workers Rights in a new Constitution. Campaign for job security and job creation entitled: "Jobs for ail - no retrenchments" Campaign for the extension of the Labour Relations Act to farm, domestic and public sector workers as weil as workers in the Bantustans.
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- Date Issued: Mar 1991
Information Digest - Number 8
- COSATU
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: Feb 1991
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110183 , vital:33244
- Description: More than two years of worker struggle, mass action and negotiations resulted last Thursday 14th February in the scrapping of the 1988 amendments to the Labour Relations Act. The State President has to sign the new Act within ten days of it being passed by parliament. Some of the most important changes contained in the new LRA are: The 1988 definition of the "unfair labour practice" is gone, removing strikes and lockouts from this definition. It will now be easier to use the Conciliation Boards and the Industrial Court to help resolve disputes. It will no longer be presumed that a union 0 is responsible for an illegal strike of its members. An employer can’t interdict a strike without giving 48 hours notice or, if shorter notice is given, without informing the union. Unions with public and private sector members can now register. COSATU will be organising regional workshops for organisers to look at the implications of the Act, and how to apply the new provisions. COSATU has stated that the scrapping of the amendments are only the first step in the process of creating a workers LRA. Immediately on the agenda, in terms of the agreement reached with employers and the state last year, is our demand for rights to be extended to farm workers, domestic workers, public sector workers, and workers in the bantustans. June is the deadline which has been set for real progress to be made in these areas. COSATU is also calling for the restructuring of the Labour Appeal Court and the National Manpower Commission.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Feb 1991
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: Feb 1991
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/110183 , vital:33244
- Description: More than two years of worker struggle, mass action and negotiations resulted last Thursday 14th February in the scrapping of the 1988 amendments to the Labour Relations Act. The State President has to sign the new Act within ten days of it being passed by parliament. Some of the most important changes contained in the new LRA are: The 1988 definition of the "unfair labour practice" is gone, removing strikes and lockouts from this definition. It will now be easier to use the Conciliation Boards and the Industrial Court to help resolve disputes. It will no longer be presumed that a union 0 is responsible for an illegal strike of its members. An employer can’t interdict a strike without giving 48 hours notice or, if shorter notice is given, without informing the union. Unions with public and private sector members can now register. COSATU will be organising regional workshops for organisers to look at the implications of the Act, and how to apply the new provisions. COSATU has stated that the scrapping of the amendments are only the first step in the process of creating a workers LRA. Immediately on the agenda, in terms of the agreement reached with employers and the state last year, is our demand for rights to be extended to farm workers, domestic workers, public sector workers, and workers in the bantustans. June is the deadline which has been set for real progress to be made in these areas. COSATU is also calling for the restructuring of the Labour Appeal Court and the National Manpower Commission.
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- Date Issued: Feb 1991
Information Digest issue 8
- COSATU
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: Feb 1991
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119167 , vital:34708
- Description: More than two years of worker struggle, mass action and negotiations resulted last Thursday 14th February in the scrapping of ^ the 1988 amendments to the Labour Relations Act. The State President has to sign the new Act within ten days of it being passed by parliament. Some of the most important changes contained in the new LRA are: The 1988 definition of the "unfair labour practice" is gone, removing strikes and lockouts from this definition. It will now be easier to use the Conciliation Boards and the Industrial Court to help resolve disputes. It will no longer be presumed that a union 0 is responsible for an illegal strike of its members. An employer can’t interdict a strike without giving 48 hours notice or, if shorter notice is given, without informing the union. Unions with public and private sector members can now register. COSATU will be organising regional workshops for organisers to look at the implications of the Act, and how to apply the new provisions.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: Feb 1991
- Authors: COSATU
- Date: Feb 1991
- Subjects: COSATU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/119167 , vital:34708
- Description: More than two years of worker struggle, mass action and negotiations resulted last Thursday 14th February in the scrapping of ^ the 1988 amendments to the Labour Relations Act. The State President has to sign the new Act within ten days of it being passed by parliament. Some of the most important changes contained in the new LRA are: The 1988 definition of the "unfair labour practice" is gone, removing strikes and lockouts from this definition. It will now be easier to use the Conciliation Boards and the Industrial Court to help resolve disputes. It will no longer be presumed that a union 0 is responsible for an illegal strike of its members. An employer can’t interdict a strike without giving 48 hours notice or, if shorter notice is given, without informing the union. Unions with public and private sector members can now register. COSATU will be organising regional workshops for organisers to look at the implications of the Act, and how to apply the new provisions.
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- Date Issued: Feb 1991
Outpatient compliance with theophylline and phenytoin therapy:
- Dowse, Roslind, Futter, William T
- Authors: Dowse, Roslind , Futter, William T
- Date: 1991
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157059 , vital:40083 , https://europepmc.org/article/med/1745939
- Description: Poor compliance with prescribed medication is a significant problem in chronic disease states and is often responsible for the apparent failure of therapy. The determinants and extent of non-compliance are commonly incorrectly perceived by doctors. During routine therapeutic drug monitoring of epileptic and asthmatic outpatients at a local day hospital, non-compliance was identified as a significant problem. A compliance study was conducted on 80 epileptic and asthmatic patients to determine the nature and extent of this problem. Non-compliance was measured using four different methods, which were then compared using chi 2 tests.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1991
- Authors: Dowse, Roslind , Futter, William T
- Date: 1991
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/157059 , vital:40083 , https://europepmc.org/article/med/1745939
- Description: Poor compliance with prescribed medication is a significant problem in chronic disease states and is often responsible for the apparent failure of therapy. The determinants and extent of non-compliance are commonly incorrectly perceived by doctors. During routine therapeutic drug monitoring of epileptic and asthmatic outpatients at a local day hospital, non-compliance was identified as a significant problem. A compliance study was conducted on 80 epileptic and asthmatic patients to determine the nature and extent of this problem. Non-compliance was measured using four different methods, which were then compared using chi 2 tests.
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- Date Issued: 1991
The human skin-blanching assay for comparing topical corticosteroid availability
- Smith, Eric W, Meyer, Eric, Haigh, John M, Maibach, Harold I
- Authors: Smith, Eric W , Meyer, Eric , Haigh, John M , Maibach, Harold I
- Date: 1991
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6433 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006604
- Description: The human skin blanching assay remains in widespread use as a reliable, qualitative, comparative indicator of topical corticosteroid availability and potency. The experimental refinements promulgated by certain researchers in this field have yielded a versatile bioassay for the accurate assessment of new drugs or delivery vehicles. With the increasing appearance of generic topical corticosteroid formulations which compete with trade-name equivalents, the vital importance of this assay in regulatory affairs and assessing bioequivalence has been re-emphasized. It is stressed that if the blanching assay is to be used in this sphere, then multiple-reading trials must be conducted; important registration or clinical decisions cannot be made with any validity from short-term assessments.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1991
- Authors: Smith, Eric W , Meyer, Eric , Haigh, John M , Maibach, Harold I
- Date: 1991
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6433 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006604
- Description: The human skin blanching assay remains in widespread use as a reliable, qualitative, comparative indicator of topical corticosteroid availability and potency. The experimental refinements promulgated by certain researchers in this field have yielded a versatile bioassay for the accurate assessment of new drugs or delivery vehicles. With the increasing appearance of generic topical corticosteroid formulations which compete with trade-name equivalents, the vital importance of this assay in regulatory affairs and assessing bioequivalence has been re-emphasized. It is stressed that if the blanching assay is to be used in this sphere, then multiple-reading trials must be conducted; important registration or clinical decisions cannot be made with any validity from short-term assessments.
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- Date Issued: 1991
Women workers
- CWIU
- Authors: CWIU
- Date: 1991
- Subjects: CWIU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178894 , vital:43009
- Description: In South Africa the majority of women workers are oppressed and exploited as workers,blacks and as women. Our resolution says that one of the key ways women can take up their rightful place as active members and leaders of our society is through active policies of affirmative action at the workplace and within our own organisations. The resolution calls on employers to work towards ending discrimination at the workplace as quickly as possible and for an end to discrimination within our own organisations.
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- Date Issued: 1991
- Authors: CWIU
- Date: 1991
- Subjects: CWIU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/178894 , vital:43009
- Description: In South Africa the majority of women workers are oppressed and exploited as workers,blacks and as women. Our resolution says that one of the key ways women can take up their rightful place as active members and leaders of our society is through active policies of affirmative action at the workplace and within our own organisations. The resolution calls on employers to work towards ending discrimination at the workplace as quickly as possible and for an end to discrimination within our own organisations.
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- Date Issued: 1991
APDUSA Views
- Date: 1990-07
- 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/10948/33117 , vital:32531 , 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: 1990-07
- Date: 1990-07
- 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/10948/33117 , vital:32531 , 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.
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- Date Issued: 1990-07
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
Blanching activities of betamethasone 17-valerate formulations: effect of the dosage form on topical drug availability
- Smith, Eric W, Meyer, Eric, Haigh, John M
- Authors: Smith, Eric W , Meyer, Eric , Haigh, John M
- Date: 1990
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6432 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006602
- Description: The blanching activities of Betnovate© cream, lotion, ointment and scalp application (each containing 0.1 % betamethasone (as the 17-valerate)) were determined using healthy human subjects over a 32 h period in both the occludedand unoccluded modes. Considering that allfour formulation types contained the same label concentration of corticosteroid,it may bepresumed that theformulations would show similar topical drug availability: this was, however, not found to be the case. The scalp application demonstrated the highest topical availability in both the occluded and unoccluded modes. The lotion formulation showed the greatest increase in topical availability on occlusion and the ointment formulation was the least sensitive to the effects of occlusion. These differences, due solely to the effects of the vehicle, may have important clinical implications.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1990
- Authors: Smith, Eric W , Meyer, Eric , Haigh, John M
- Date: 1990
- Language: English
- Type: Article
- Identifier: vital:6432 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006602
- Description: The blanching activities of Betnovate© cream, lotion, ointment and scalp application (each containing 0.1 % betamethasone (as the 17-valerate)) were determined using healthy human subjects over a 32 h period in both the occludedand unoccluded modes. Considering that allfour formulation types contained the same label concentration of corticosteroid,it may bepresumed that theformulations would show similar topical drug availability: this was, however, not found to be the case. The scalp application demonstrated the highest topical availability in both the occluded and unoccluded modes. The lotion formulation showed the greatest increase in topical availability on occlusion and the ointment formulation was the least sensitive to the effects of occlusion. These differences, due solely to the effects of the vehicle, may have important clinical implications.
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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
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.
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- 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
Lesego Rampolokeng, Horns for Hondo. Fordsburg Congress of South African Writers, 1990. Book Review
- Authors: Doherty, Christo
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/460538 , vital:75946 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_183
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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- Date Issued: 1990
- Authors: Doherty, Christo
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/460538 , vital:75946 , https://journals.co.za/doi/epdf/10.10520/AJA00284459_183
- Description: New Coin is one of South Africa's most established and influential poetry journals. It publishes poetry, and poetry-related reviews, commentary and interviews. New Coin places a particular emphasis on evolving forms and experimental use of the English language in poetry in the South African context. In this sense it has traced the most exciting trends and currents in contemporary poetry in South Africa for a decade of more. The journal is published twice a year in June and December by the Institute for the Study of English in Africa (ISEA), Rhodes University.
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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
Tribute to the late Davadoss
- EIMWU
- Authors: EIMWU
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: Engineering Industrial and Mining Workers Union (EIMWU)
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162344 , vital:40921
- Description: To my knowledge the author of this adage was Brother Davadoss. Better known to many, far and wide, as “DAVVY”. Lesley Davadoss was one of nine children of a working class family. Grew up and spent his formative years in Bokmakierie, Athlone. Devout in his Catholic upbringing, later to be ordained as a Deacon at St. Mary of the Angels. Lesley was a very sincere person who concerned himself with the needs of the Community, which naturally resulted in his involvement at the Company where he worked with the problems of his workmates. Along with other like thinking persons, he formed the E.I.W.U. in the Cape, holding meetings at his home in Kayter Road Crawford. The Branch in Durban, along with the Cape Town Branch formed E.I.W.U.S.A.
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- Date Issued: 1990
- Authors: EIMWU
- Date: 1990
- Subjects: Engineering Industrial and Mining Workers Union (EIMWU)
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/162344 , vital:40921
- Description: To my knowledge the author of this adage was Brother Davadoss. Better known to many, far and wide, as “DAVVY”. Lesley Davadoss was one of nine children of a working class family. Grew up and spent his formative years in Bokmakierie, Athlone. Devout in his Catholic upbringing, later to be ordained as a Deacon at St. Mary of the Angels. Lesley was a very sincere person who concerned himself with the needs of the Community, which naturally resulted in his involvement at the Company where he worked with the problems of his workmates. Along with other like thinking persons, he formed the E.I.W.U. in the Cape, holding meetings at his home in Kayter Road Crawford. The Branch in Durban, along with the Cape Town Branch formed E.I.W.U.S.A.
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- Date Issued: 1990
APDUSA Views
- Date: 1989-09
- 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/10948/33610 , vital:32905 , 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: 1989-09
- Date: 1989-09
- 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/10948/33610 , vital:32905 , 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: 1989-09
APDUSA Views
- Date: 1989-08
- 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/10948/32668 , vital:32307 , 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: 1989-08
- Date: 1989-08
- 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/10948/32668 , vital:32307 , 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: 1989-08