Word: cosatu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...umbrella group, the walkout proved that Pretoria's two- year-old state of emergency -- renewed last week for another year -- had failed to crush opponents of apartheid. The general strike, protesting proposed changes that would toughen South Africa's already restrictive labor laws, defied a February order that banned COSATU and 17 other militant groups from all political action...
...large, police and government officials avoided cracking down on the protest. In Cape Town, Minister of Manpower Pieter du Plessis offered to discuss the proposed labor-law amendments with COSATU. He declared that the controversial bill, which bans sympathy walkouts and, according to COSATU, encourages management to sue unions for losses incurred through unlawful strikes, was not in its final form. The conciliatory statement confirmed that despite two years of repression, black labor unions could still make their voices heard...
...would be the final blow. After Botha issued a ten-page enabling decree, Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok prohibited 17 leading black organizations "from carrying on or performing any activities or acts whatsoever." At the same time, he ordered the black Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the country's largest labor federation, with more than 700,000 members, to cease all political activity, including calling for boycotts, work stoppages and the release of detainees...
...umbrella coalition including most anti-apartheid groups in South Africa, refused to participate in the Indaba, just as it refused to participate in elections for the triracial parliament. So did the Azanian People's Organization (APACO), a smaller anti-apartheid group, and the Congressof South African Trad Unions (COSATU), the largestnonracial labor federation. Undoubtedly, theirresponse was colored by dislike for Buthelezi,whose strong-armed followers are notorious forbrutal attacks on Black opponents. (13) The ANC,being illegal under the current regime, was notinvited, but it is as vehemently opposed to theprocess as the UDF, COSATU or AZAPO. The mainparticipants...
...from the goal of punishing South Africa economically for its support of apartheid. For example, the Congress of South African Trade Unions, the country's largest labor federation, has called for even stronger "comprehensive" sanctions that would include a total embargo on trade, investment and travel involving South Africa. COSATU's rethinking on sanctions, however, is less remarkable for that unrealistic idea than for its frank conclusion that the current "selective sanctions" can have "serious negative consequences" for workers. That, after all, is an argument long employed by opponents of such measures...