Cape Town
The Freedom struggle in Cape Town
Table of contents:
- Black Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
- Cape Town Civic and Community Organisations, 1980s
- Negotiations and the transition
- Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
- Establishment of the Cape and its impact on Khoikhoi and Dutch
- Slavery
- The growth of trade unionism in Cape Town and the formation of early political organisations
- Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
- Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
- Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
- Conflict among civic organisations
- Formation and launch of the UDF
- Conclusion
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
Table of Contents:
- Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
- Strikes
- Bus Boycott
- Red meat boycott
- Student protests and school boycotts
The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis strike and boycott, Saldanha Bay fish factory strike and the red meat boycott amongst others. Perhaps one of the important developments in the late 1970s was the formation of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) in 1979. FOSATU was the first South African trade union federation that organised mostly Black employees that aimed to be a national, non-racial umbrella organisation that could coordinate Black trade union movements. The federation was formed after the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU) and Federation of Free African Trade Unions (FFATU) disintegrated in the 1960's.
