Word: cosatu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...railway workers, who had been stabbed and burned, in the Johannesburg rail yards. A fifth body was discovered in Tembisa township, to the east of the city. White officials charged that the five had been killed by blacks for refusing to join the strike. Police once again raided the COSATU offices, this time armed with search warrants, and arrested twelve people...
...members toil in the vital gold and diamond mines, which provide more than half the country's foreign-exchange earnings. An additional 50 smaller ; black labor groups represent everyone from waiters and metalworkers to supermarket cashiers. Individual unions are grouped into labor federations, the largest of which is COSATU, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, with 500,000 members...
...stay-aways" on May 1 and again on the June 16 anniversary of the 1976 Soweto riots succeeded in halting most South African business and industrial activity. Continuing wildcat strikes throughout the country have also contributed to a growing sense of unease in the South African business community. Now COSATU has called for another "day of action" this week, testing the government's mettle with yet another nationwide strike...
Over the past year, however, as violent unrest in the country has increased, members have pressed the unions to become more overtly political. COSATU, the result of four years of painstaking negotiations among the leading black unions, is the most powerful manifestation of this burgeoning political consciousness. Although the new solidarity is still fragile, the giant federation of 34 multiracial unions claims some 450,000 members in the country's most vital industries and clearly has the potential to be a major force in South African affairs. Its leaders have already openly committed themselves to an activist role...
...month-old state of emergency in eight of the 38 areas where it had been imposed. Those areas were mostly rural settlements and had been for the most part untouched by racial unrest, which has claimed more than 900 victims this year. Privately, officials made it clear that unless COSATU leaders control their radicalism, they too could be subjected to detentions and other restrictions...