Message for 1994 to SADTU members from SADTU President, Shepherd Mdladlana
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- Title
- Message for 1994 to SADTU members from SADTU President, Shepherd Mdladlana
- Creator
- SADTU
- Date Issued
- Feb-94
- Description
- The year 1993 was a year of test and struggle for SADTU. As President of SADTU I believe that we have passed the gruesome test and successfully concluded our struggle against the Apartheid regime. I want to commend and congratulate our regions, branches and the entire membership for remaining vigilant against apartheid education and its bureaucratic structures in order to defend the rights of teachers. You must remember that your success is most vital because SADTU is the only teachers' union that had the ability and the capacity to fight against 19 education departments. Various issues faced us in 1993. At the beginning of 1993 F.W. de Klerk closed salary negotiations. Because of our campaigns these negotiations were re-opened. We opened the door for all teachers irrespective of membership. All other teachers' organisations had accepted the closure by the State President of negotiations and the meagre offer of 5% as a reality. Rationalisation programmes went ahead in the HOR/HOD/HOA, again because of the insistence of the leader of the NP, F.W. de Klerk, that all departments must rationalise and cut back. This unfortunately was effected by retrenching thousands of teachers. Although our campaigns were unsuccessful in as far as stopping these programmes, we have succeeded in developing alternative strategies in this regard for a Post Apartheid government.
- Format
- Language
- English
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/134684
- 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
- 4 pages
- Rights
- South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU)
- Rights Holder
- South African Democratic Teachers Union (SADTU)
- Use/re-use
- The materials are made available explicitly for research and educational purposes. Any use of these materials must be cleared with the Labour Research Service.
- Item sets
- General Materials
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