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209:. If a strike was organised large numbers of workers were arrested and taken to court. The union organised for each one to give evidence individually about why they stopped work, and this usually led to prosecutions being withdrawn. Those who were known to be active in the union were routinely transferred to remote areas with reduced wages. Union organisers found on railway property were prosecuted for trespass. After an unsuccessful strike in Port Elizabeth in 1957, defeated by the use of prison labour, the railways strikers all dismissed. The stevedores were retained but their wages were reduced. 336:
an offer which was accepted by Sebakwane on 29 September 1991 without consulting the unions full negotiating team. The Southern Transvaal shop stewards objected and they occupied the unions office and later kidnapped Sebakwane. Sibeko, who had been elected Honorary President, was brought in to run the head office for several months. COSATU conducted a Commission of Enquiry which reported in January 1992. They found no evidence of corruption, as had been alleged, but considerable evidence of abuse and misuse of union funds and facilities.
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to railway workers, who were paid less. The average wage of the 28,000 casual labourers was less than £32 a year - less than the average wage of black workers in 1920. Many black staff had no definite hours of work, but were required to be available as required. African workers only got 3 days paid holiday a year (Good Friday, Christmas Day and Union Day).
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The liberation of freedom fighters and the Government of National Unity was a challenge for the union. Its organisers were political activists rather than administrators. A number of organisers were accused of irregularities and forced to resign. Salaries were not always paid on time even as late
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The third annual congress was held from 27 February to 2 March 1991. For the first time the Coloured and Indian unions in Transnet were invited guests. From October 1991 the union could participate in the new Transnet Industrial Council. In September there were proposals for a strike. Transnet made
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In 1937 Ray Alexander produced a pamphlet for the union called "We Want to Live". It pointed out that the Cape Town City Council paid its labourers 6/8d a day but railway workers were only paid 3/6d or 4/-d a day. In Bloemfontein there was a general minimum wage of 3/6d a day but this did not apply
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made life even more difficult. All the officials were detained or banned. Sibeko and Mabhida left the country. There was no open trade union activity for the remainder of the decade. Sam Pholotho became President of the union in 1965, but he too was banned.
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in order to join SARAHWU. The first campaigns were about the quality of food supplied in the workers compounds. A successful boycott campaign encouraged about 3/4 of the railways workers in the Southern Transvaal to join by the end of 1986.
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system. The union refused to apply for registration because that would imply acceptance of a "blacks only" union. There were 18 offices across the country with about 55 employees, and there was often not enough money to pay them.
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office in Cape Town in or around 1953. The union's operations at that time were almost completely clandestine. Sibeko wore the uniform brown overalls so that he would be inconspicuous on railway property. Until he was banned
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Lawrence Ndzanga was the union's organiser in Johannesburg, working with his wife Rita who worked for the union as a typist. He was elected National President of the union in September 1962.
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was listed in a government proclamation under which 432 people were banned from holding office in any of 36 listed organisations, including 45 officials of SACTU and its affiliates. The
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on 16 March 1987 over the sacking of a delivery driver. By the first week of April more than 20,000 were on strike. The strike was supported by other unions, but not by the
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in October 1986, with Sam Pholotho in the chair. Sello Ntai was elected as General Secretary and Justice Langa as president. There were then about 10,000 members.
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as 1997. Furthermore, the new government were not prepared to continue to subsidise the transport industry and the numbers employed declined significantly.
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After this Derrick Simoko was elected General Secretary. Sebakwane stepped down and became a trainee manager for Transnet.
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A number of the union's organisers, including Sibeko, were arrested on at 4 am 5 December 1956 among those charged in the
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From 1942 to the 1950s the union had an advantage because of labour shortages and succeeded in negotiating improvements.
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of 1962, generally known as the Sabotage Act made organisation very difficult. In December 1962 the
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and the murder of strike breakers. The government retaliated by attacking both the union and the
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and the smaller Transnet Allied Trade Union. The merged organisation was called the
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The union organised a strike at the end of May 1961 against the establishment of the
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In November 1989 there was a further strike as a result of which, in January 1990,
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massacre. There were many violent incidents, including the burning of trains at
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In October 1988 annual congress Martin Sebakwane was elected General Secretary.
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worked closely with him and took up cases using his position as a member of the
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as the union's first full-time organiser, working out of a corner of the
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at 57 Plein Street, which was rented in the name of White members of the
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Its first task was to persuade people to leave the company union, the
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By 1988 membership had grown to around 43,000. There was still no
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The union was revived in December 1985, operating from
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Cape Town Stevedoring Workers Union
International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers
South African Trades and Labour Council
Cape Town Stevedoring Workers Union
South African Communist Party
Council of Non-European Trade Unions
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