The mailing to Key Labor Contacts of the Africa Fund, reports on dramatic events in South Africa that indicate a shift from the apartheid government to a resurgent democratic movement. Before July, State President F.W. de Klerk had firmly established his reformist credentials overseas and international sanctions were crumbling; in June, President Bush met with bantustan Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, and, three weeks later, the American sanctions were repealed. The African National Congress (ANC) appeared uncertain about how to respond to either the escalating township violence or the maneuvers by de Klerk's National Party. However, by the end of July, the bubble of government invincibility was...
The mailing to Key Labor Contacts of the Africa Fund, reports on dramatic events in South Africa that indicate a shift from the apartheid government to a resurgent democratic movement. Before July, State President F.W. de Klerk had firmly established his reformist credentials overseas and international sanctions were crumbling; in June, President Bush met with bantustan Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, and, three weeks later, the American sanctions were repealed. The African National Congress (ANC) appeared uncertain about how to respond to either the escalating township violence or the maneuvers by de Klerk's National Party. However, by the end of July, the bubble of government invincibility was shattered by the Gatsha-gate revelations of covert government sponsorship of Buthelezi's reactionary Inkatha party and of security force involvement in so-called "Black on Black" fighting. The mailing includes a reprint of a South Africa Labour Bulletin article "COSATU elections, voting, new blocks: Congress what does it mean?" by Karl von Holdt. The mailing also discusses the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), the Central Executive Committee (CEC), the Freedom Charter, Elijah Barayi, Chris Dlamini, John Gomomo, VAT, mass action, the National Manpower Commission, NUM (National Union of Mineworkers), NUMSA (National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa), CWIA (Chemical Workers International Union), SACCAWU (South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union), TGWU (Transport and General Workers Union), FAWU (Food and Allied Workers Union), CAWU (Construction and Allied Workers Union), SARHWU, POTWA (Postal and Telecommunications' Association), NEHAWU (National Education, Health and Allied Workers Union)m PPWAWU (Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied Workers Union), NAAWU (National Automobile and Allied Workers' Union), Godfrey Olifant, De Beers, Salie Manie, SAMWU (South African Municipal Workers' Union), Ronald Mofokeng, FAWU (Food and Allied Workers Union), SACTWU (Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union), SADTU (South African Democratic Teachers Union), POPCRU (Police and Prison Civil Rights Union), the Organization of African Trade Union Unity (OATUU), Hassan Sunmonu, the Southern African Trade Union Coordinating Council (SATUCC), ICFTU, WFTU, and WCL. • More voting • Leadership elections • NUM.NUMSA alliance • Affiliate membership figures • Organisational issues • Economic policy • Campaigns • Worker control • More power to COSATU • Women workers • Political resolutions • Inkathagate and mass action • Tripartite alliance and negotiations • International afflation • Resolutions
