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NUMSA Wage campaign report

- NUMSA

Authors: NUMSA
Date: July 1987
Subjects: NUMSA
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/114147 , vital:33929
Description: ON 14th July 1987, for the first time in South African history, there was a national strike in the metal industry. About 350 factories stopped work all over the country in support of the NUMSA demand for a living wage. Metalworkers voted overwhelmingly for strike action in the national ballot that was conducted between 6th and 8th July. The strike was set for the 14th July. Workers were ready to fight SEIFSA until they won. The militancy of workers could be seen from the huge attendance at local meetings. During the week of the ballot shop stewards were gathering in huge numbers in the union offices to discuss problems and plan strategy. In the Eastern Cape a general meeting of over 400 workers was held to discuss plans.
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Date Issued: July 1987

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The new union subscriptions

- NUMSA

Authors: NUMSA
Date: Oct 1987
Subjects: NUMSA
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112732 , vital:33650
Description: THE Inaugural Congress of NUMSA decided that all members must pay a subscription of R1,00 per week. The Central Committee was given the power to decide when members should start paying the new subscription. The Central Committee has decided that all members of NUMSA must pay R1,00 per week union subscription from 1st October 1987. In some establishments, you may have to sign new stop- orders. NUMSA will demand from management that they automatically change the amount of the subscription. Some companies may refuse to do this and may ask you to sign a new stop-order. Discuss this with your organiser before you sign anything. In addition to the R1 per week for the union subscription, there will be 30c per week for benefit funds. An explanation of how all this money will be used is given in this pamphlet. Please make sure that you fully discuss this with all the members in your factory or workshop so that all NUMSA members are clear about the new subscriptions before the 1st of October 1987.
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Date Issued: Oct 1987

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Call to boycott

- Grahamstown Action Group (GAG)

Authors: Grahamstown Action Group (GAG)
Date: 1985-09
Subjects: South Africa -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century , Boycotts -- South Africa -- Grahamstown , South Africa -- Politics and government
Language: English
Type: text , tracts (ephemera)
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57692 , vital:26981 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
Description: Pamphlet designed to elicit support from white residents in Grahamstown, in supporting the boycott of white-owned businesses as called by the residents of the "Grahamstown's African townships". The boycott was the third in 1985, and was intended to achieve specific outcomes, such as the end to the State of Emergency, the release of political detainees, and the lifting of the ban on public meetings.
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Date Issued: 1985-09

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AZASO: tribute to women

- AZASO Western Cape Region

Authors: AZASO Western Cape Region
Date: 1983?
Subjects: Tamana, Dora , Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa , Women civil rights workers -- South Africa , Anti-apartheid activists -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations
Language: English
Type: text , book
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66212 , vital:28918
Description: As women in South Africa, it is important for us to understand the nature of our oppression, for it is only after understanding it, can we identify the target of our attack and plan the appropriate strategy and tactics for our struggle. Black women in South Africa suffer three types of oppression. 1. Political oppression, which is common to all blacks in South Africa, ie. the denial of rights to vote for or choose the type of government we want, and the denial of rights as a people in South Africa. 2. Economic oppression as black workers in South Africa. Black women workers are even more exploited than men workers. They are paid lower wages for the same job, are treated as temporary staff and can be fired at anytime especially if they fall pregnant. 3. Social oppression which stems from the idea that women are born inferior to men and therefore have to play an inferior role in society. The socialization process starts at birth and women and men are geared towards certain roles in society. Men most often towards leadership positions and professional jobs and women towards household duties and secretarial jobs. This socialization process continues throughout ones life such that most people accept it as a natural phenomenon and a way of life. Having understood the forms of oppression, we can see that the struggle is not between men and women, where men are seen as the source of our oppression. Nor is it a struggle for mechanical equality between men and women ie. being paid the same wages as men, and having equal status as men in society, because this will mean equality within the present status quo. Our struggle is a struggle between womenand the existing social order. It is a struggle of the oppressed against oppression. Our main weapons in the struggle for liberation are UNITY and ORGANISATION. Unity is realised through common effort, links are forged through collective work and study, through criticism and self-critcism and through action against opression. Organization can be achieved through women's groups and organization. A women's group's first demand should be the clarification of our ideas, to get rid of miscosepts and erroneous ideas concerning the role and liberation of women. A women's group usually tackles the question of social oppresion, but more important, it must be seen as a stepping stone towards involvement in the broader struggle can we destroy the foundations of exploitative society and rebuild society on new foundations. Foundations built on the demands of the FREEDOM CHARTER. “The fundamental struggle is for national liberation of the oppressed people of South Africa, and any women's organization that stands outside this struggle must stand apart from the mass of women. What was realised by the Federation of South African Women was that it would be impossible for women to achieve their rights as women in a society in which so many fundamental rights are denied to both men and women by virtue of their colour and their class. Therefore just as there can be no revolution without the liberation of women, the struggle for women's emancipation cannot succeed without the victory of the revolution".
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Date Issued: 1983?

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The price of treason: Carl Niehaus: Wits student cum traitor

Date: 1983?
Subjects: Niehaus, Carl, 1959- , Political activists -- South Africa -- Biography , Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57705 , vital:26983 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
Description: Pamphlet outlining the crime of treason, and sentencing of Carl Niehaus (and his then fiancé Johanna Lourens) in 1983.
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Date Issued: 1983?

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FOSATU - Policy motion on industrial councils

- FOSATU

Authors: FOSATU
Date: Nov 1981
Subjects: FOSATU
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118421 , vital:34627
Description: FOSATU BELIEVES: Industrial Councils were established and have been developed to serve the interests of employers and a minority of workers. That most Industrial Councils are presently unrepresentative of the majority of workers and therefore undemocratic. That the Constitution and structure of most Industrial Councils reflects this un-representativeness and authoritarian base and it would be difficult for any small and democratic union to have an effect on Industrial Councils as they presently exist. That some Industrial Councils., because they are dominated by employers, misdirect workers' money collected either in the form of a levy or in benefit funds. That some Industrial Councils have blocked speedy solution to industrial problems by placing cumbersome procedures and bureaucratic structures in the way of direct negotiation between employers and workers.
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Date Issued: Nov 1981

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The structure of aliphatic amine adducts of uranyl acetylacetonate. II. Dioxobis(2,4-pentanedionato)mono (2-N,N-dimethylaminopentan-4-one)uranium(VI)

- Nassimbeni, L R, Orpen, G, Pauptit, R A, Rodgers, Allen L, Haigh, John M

Authors: Nassimbeni, L R , Orpen, G , Pauptit, R A , Rodgers, Allen L , Haigh, John M
Date: 1977
Language: English
Type: text , Article
Identifier: vital:6416 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006533
Description: Introduction: In a previous analysis of a compound of this type, we have established that the adduct molecule is bonded through O and that the geometry about U is pentagonal bipyramidal (Haigh, Nassimbeni, Pauptit, Rodgers & Sheldrick, 1976). We have carried out the present analysis to study the conformational effects on the ligand brought about by substitution at N.
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Date Issued: 1977

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The structure of aliphatic amine adducts of uranyl acetylacetonate. III. Dioxobis(2,4-pentanedionato)mono (2-N-isopropylaminopentan-4-one)uranium(VI)

- Rodgers, A L, Nassimbeni, L R, Haigh, John M

Authors: Rodgers, A L , Nassimbeni, L R , Haigh, John M
Date: 1977
Language: English
Type: text , Article
Identifier: vital:6419 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006552
Description: Introduction: In two earlier structural determinations of compounds of this type we have shown that the conformation of the adduct moiety is dependent on the formation of intramolecular N-H...0 hydrogen bonds (part I: Haigh, Nassimbeni, Pauptit, Rodgers & Sheldrick, 1976; part II: Nassimbeni, Orpen, Pauptit, Rodgers & Haigh, 1977). We have carried out the present analysis to study the conformational effects on the ligand brought about by the steric influence of an isopropyl substituent at N.
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Date Issued: 1977

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