SADTU News - A review of SADTU Congress

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Title
SADTU News - A review of SADTU Congress
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Date
1995
Description
The Third SADTU Congress, held at the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, was attended by over 800 delegates, representing 100 000 teachers country-wide. Delegates were elected at Branch level, ensuring grass roots participation in the highest decision making body of the Union. The Congress served to confirm SADTU's position as the largest teacher Union in the country, and demonstrated a strongly unified focus around the theme: “Unionise and Reconstruct for Teacher Empowerment”. The success of any Congress must be measured against the aims it sets itself. Our Congress had two aims: to elect new leadership for the next two years, and to adopt resolutions which would inform the direction and programmes of the Union in this period. While we successfully completed the former task, we could only make a start on the second aspect - confirming the fact that the period we are entering is far more complex than before, and in need of extensive analysis and debate. We therefore mandated the SADTU National Council to formalise the adoption of resolutions arising from the reports. A Special National Council was convened on 25/26 August, with extended participation by regions, and the Congress report can now be finalised.
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Format
pdf
Language
English
Type
text
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/10962/118030
Archive
Cory Library for Humanitites Research
Provenance
The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
Extent
16 pages
Rights
SOUTH AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC TEACHERS UNION (SADTU)
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SOUTH AFRICAN DEMOCRATIC TEACHERS UNION (SADTU)
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