Workers Tribune
- NACTU
- Authors: NACTU
- Date: May 2001
- Subjects: NACTU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167897 , vital:41520
- Description: Nactu, the second largest trade union federation with a membership of more than 500 000 workers from across various sectors, publishes this month its new baby. Workers Tribune, a monthly magazine that will communicate the federation's message to its members and other interested parties. It was not by accident that the birth of this important publication should coincide with May Day. For Nactu, May Day is the embodiment of workers' and peoples' struggles that has culminated in the freedom that South Africa enjoys today. We also know that these struggles occurred in an unfriendly, and often hostile environment, with many of the liberation heroes and heroines laying down their lives for the love of freedom and justice. We now enjoy democracy and freedom, and we must work hard at preserving it. We must always be mindful that it is easy to abuse freedom, and so we must strenuously be on the lookout for tendencies that seek to undermine freedom. We may have a new political order in our country, but there can be no question that the working class is still facing new challenges against capital, even black bosses. We still live in an environment that creates tensions between the working class and the bosses. We still have thousands of our comrades who have been retrenched because of the desire by bosses to realise big profits. And so, the struggle for workers' complete emancipation from tyranny is far from over. All bosses, including some we shared pain and abuse in the apartheid trenches, are capable of reverting to old ways. We must not forget that, like the erstwhile bosses of the apartheid era, they operate within an environment that is determined from outside,, and so they have to play the game according to pre-determined rules. The emergence of turncoats is on the increase. And for reasons I have alluded to, that should not surprise us. The trade union movement should increasingly prepare itself for other battles. But we should also empower ourselves with knowledge, so that when we dialogue with the bosses we raise compelling arguments. Slogans qlone do not work. We need to develop intellect as well. And so in this issue, Comrade Cunningham Ngcukana begins the process of teaching, and mental empowerment. He helps his readers to have a better understanding of what globalisation is all about, explaining that it is more profitable for unions to have profound appreciation of the workings of this system if they have to use it to their advantage. Ngcukana also writes about May Day. He tells us about the origins of this day. It is history we need because it is both informative and inspiring. A fine and commendable work by the general secretary of Nactu. There is also an article on gender equality in the workplace. Brenda Modise wrote it for us, and do read and enjoy it. To break the heaviness of the magazine, we also run a variety of pictures that seek to introduce to readers some of Nactu's leaders. We believe that it is important that you know your leaders in the trade union movement. Most importantly, however, we want to create a dialogue between ourselves and readers. Do, therefore, send us letters, commenting on various issues raised in this number. We hope to be of service to you. Do have a nice read.
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- Date Issued: May 2001
- Authors: NACTU
- Date: May 2001
- Subjects: NACTU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/167897 , vital:41520
- Description: Nactu, the second largest trade union federation with a membership of more than 500 000 workers from across various sectors, publishes this month its new baby. Workers Tribune, a monthly magazine that will communicate the federation's message to its members and other interested parties. It was not by accident that the birth of this important publication should coincide with May Day. For Nactu, May Day is the embodiment of workers' and peoples' struggles that has culminated in the freedom that South Africa enjoys today. We also know that these struggles occurred in an unfriendly, and often hostile environment, with many of the liberation heroes and heroines laying down their lives for the love of freedom and justice. We now enjoy democracy and freedom, and we must work hard at preserving it. We must always be mindful that it is easy to abuse freedom, and so we must strenuously be on the lookout for tendencies that seek to undermine freedom. We may have a new political order in our country, but there can be no question that the working class is still facing new challenges against capital, even black bosses. We still live in an environment that creates tensions between the working class and the bosses. We still have thousands of our comrades who have been retrenched because of the desire by bosses to realise big profits. And so, the struggle for workers' complete emancipation from tyranny is far from over. All bosses, including some we shared pain and abuse in the apartheid trenches, are capable of reverting to old ways. We must not forget that, like the erstwhile bosses of the apartheid era, they operate within an environment that is determined from outside,, and so they have to play the game according to pre-determined rules. The emergence of turncoats is on the increase. And for reasons I have alluded to, that should not surprise us. The trade union movement should increasingly prepare itself for other battles. But we should also empower ourselves with knowledge, so that when we dialogue with the bosses we raise compelling arguments. Slogans qlone do not work. We need to develop intellect as well. And so in this issue, Comrade Cunningham Ngcukana begins the process of teaching, and mental empowerment. He helps his readers to have a better understanding of what globalisation is all about, explaining that it is more profitable for unions to have profound appreciation of the workings of this system if they have to use it to their advantage. Ngcukana also writes about May Day. He tells us about the origins of this day. It is history we need because it is both informative and inspiring. A fine and commendable work by the general secretary of Nactu. There is also an article on gender equality in the workplace. Brenda Modise wrote it for us, and do read and enjoy it. To break the heaviness of the magazine, we also run a variety of pictures that seek to introduce to readers some of Nactu's leaders. We believe that it is important that you know your leaders in the trade union movement. Most importantly, however, we want to create a dialogue between ourselves and readers. Do, therefore, send us letters, commenting on various issues raised in this number. We hope to be of service to you. Do have a nice read.
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- Date Issued: May 2001
Working conditions agreement for SACCAWU employees
- SACCAWU
- Authors: SACCAWU
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: SACCAWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175924 , vital:42641
- Description: As a SACCAWU Staff Member it is important to know exactly what your Conditions of Service are hence this booklet. The Union believes in the principle of good and fair treatment of Staff and sees this as encouraging motivated and dedicated Officials. We have therefore tried to make Conditions as favourable as possible within the constraints of being a no-profit making organisation. In return, however the organisation does expect diligence, commitment and efficiency. Staff have the right before 1st March, every year to put forward proposals to* National Finance Committee in order to improve Working Conditions. Two Representatives elected from each Region will attend National Discussions/Engagements which shall put together a national mandate and elect Representatives to meet with NFC.
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- Date Issued: 2001
- Authors: SACCAWU
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: SACCAWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/175924 , vital:42641
- Description: As a SACCAWU Staff Member it is important to know exactly what your Conditions of Service are hence this booklet. The Union believes in the principle of good and fair treatment of Staff and sees this as encouraging motivated and dedicated Officials. We have therefore tried to make Conditions as favourable as possible within the constraints of being a no-profit making organisation. In return, however the organisation does expect diligence, commitment and efficiency. Staff have the right before 1st March, every year to put forward proposals to* National Finance Committee in order to improve Working Conditions. Two Representatives elected from each Region will attend National Discussions/Engagements which shall put together a national mandate and elect Representatives to meet with NFC.
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- Date Issued: 2001
XML to facilitate management of multi-vendor networks
- Halse, Guy A, Wells, George C, Terzoli, Alfredo
- Authors: Halse, Guy A , Wells, George C , Terzoli, Alfredo
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: XML Network Management SNMP
- Language: English
- Type: Conference paper
- Identifier: vital:6602 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009322
- Description: Many standards aimed at managing networks currently exist, and yet networks remain notoriously difficult to maintain. Template-based management systems go a long way towards solving this problem. By developing an XML based language to describe network elements, as well as the topology of a network, we can create tools that are free from vendor specific idiosyncrasies, and are capable of managing both today’s networks and those of the future.
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- Date Issued: 2001
- Authors: Halse, Guy A , Wells, George C , Terzoli, Alfredo
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: XML Network Management SNMP
- Language: English
- Type: Conference paper
- Identifier: vital:6602 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009322
- Description: Many standards aimed at managing networks currently exist, and yet networks remain notoriously difficult to maintain. Template-based management systems go a long way towards solving this problem. By developing an XML based language to describe network elements, as well as the topology of a network, we can create tools that are free from vendor specific idiosyncrasies, and are capable of managing both today’s networks and those of the future.
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- Date Issued: 2001
Young women's memories of their experiences in adolescent relationships : a qualitative study
- Authors: Breetzke, Andrea Welsh
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: Teenage girls , Adolescent psychology , Teenagers , Parent and teenager , Teenage parents
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSocSc
- Identifier: vital:690 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006366 , Teenage girls , Adolescent psychology , Teenagers , Parent and teenager , Teenage parents
- Description: Democratic Government in South Africa has brought with it changes in ideology and policy as well as a focus on a new area of concern. It has recognised the importance of young people. In May 1995 the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Youth at Risk (IMC) was established to re-organise the Child and Youth Care system in order increase its effectivity in coping with vulnerable youths. The IMC proposed a new framework for understanding and working with youth based on the principle of the Sioux parenting practices, called the Circle of Courage. Traditionally, helping professionals such as social workers use western theories, such as Erikson's Psychosocial Stage theory, to understand adolescents. Both of these theories and philosophies were not developed in South Africa and there is, therefore, cause for concern as to their relevance to the diverse and unique circumstances of this country. In this qualitative study, five young South African women attending a tertiary institution were asked to tell the stories of their adolescence with specific reference to their boy/girl relationships and factors influencing these relationships. The data was gathered in one or two semi-structured interviews. Data was analysed using Miles and Huberman's (1994) broad model using data reduction (through coding), data display (with the use of two context charts and a thematic conceptual matrix)and verification and conclusion drawing (through finding synergies and contrasts between the data and the two theories). This analysis was conducted with two specific aims. The first aim was to provide a thick description of one of the women's stories to show the complexity and diversity of her experience. Secondly, synergies and contrasts were sought between the women's stories and the two theories: Erikson's stage theory and the Circle of Courage. The analysis showed strong evidence that aspects from both these theories existed in the data and that to some degree both were relevant to the experiences of these five women.
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- Date Issued: 2001
- Authors: Breetzke, Andrea Welsh
- Date: 2001
- Subjects: Teenage girls , Adolescent psychology , Teenagers , Parent and teenager , Teenage parents
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MSocSc
- Identifier: vital:690 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006366 , Teenage girls , Adolescent psychology , Teenagers , Parent and teenager , Teenage parents
- Description: Democratic Government in South Africa has brought with it changes in ideology and policy as well as a focus on a new area of concern. It has recognised the importance of young people. In May 1995 the Inter-Ministerial Committee for Youth at Risk (IMC) was established to re-organise the Child and Youth Care system in order increase its effectivity in coping with vulnerable youths. The IMC proposed a new framework for understanding and working with youth based on the principle of the Sioux parenting practices, called the Circle of Courage. Traditionally, helping professionals such as social workers use western theories, such as Erikson's Psychosocial Stage theory, to understand adolescents. Both of these theories and philosophies were not developed in South Africa and there is, therefore, cause for concern as to their relevance to the diverse and unique circumstances of this country. In this qualitative study, five young South African women attending a tertiary institution were asked to tell the stories of their adolescence with specific reference to their boy/girl relationships and factors influencing these relationships. The data was gathered in one or two semi-structured interviews. Data was analysed using Miles and Huberman's (1994) broad model using data reduction (through coding), data display (with the use of two context charts and a thematic conceptual matrix)and verification and conclusion drawing (through finding synergies and contrasts between the data and the two theories). This analysis was conducted with two specific aims. The first aim was to provide a thick description of one of the women's stories to show the complexity and diversity of her experience. Secondly, synergies and contrasts were sought between the women's stories and the two theories: Erikson's stage theory and the Circle of Courage. The analysis showed strong evidence that aspects from both these theories existed in the data and that to some degree both were relevant to the experiences of these five women.
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- Date Issued: 2001
Fight for your lives against privatisation
- South African Municipal Workers Union
- Authors: South African Municipal Workers Union
- Date: 2001-01
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105721 , vital:32561
- Description: Welcome, comrades to the New Year! In the last issue of Workers' News, I raised the point that all of us in elected positions were renewing our mandate. Now all of us, as members of SAMWU have a new mandate from Congress. We emerge out of Congress a united face which is geared to take workers struggle forward. Provinces came to Congress with different positions - through a process of open debates we managed to reach consensus on most of the discussions. This shows political maturity and cohesion. I want to look at the most critical challenges we have to face in the next three years. The credentials presented at Congress showed that we have not increased our lost membership in the past three years. We must start an organising campaign to meet the target we have set for ourselves. We need to have a programme of empowering women. We have concentrated much resources on a few leaders who are empowered already. For me that is not enough if we want to build a strong women's layer in the union , here put any information that you think is important but there is no field for it, if there isnt remove the field
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- Date Issued: 2001-01
- Authors: South African Municipal Workers Union
- Date: 2001-01
- Subjects: Uncatalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , pamphlet
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/105721 , vital:32561
- Description: Welcome, comrades to the New Year! In the last issue of Workers' News, I raised the point that all of us in elected positions were renewing our mandate. Now all of us, as members of SAMWU have a new mandate from Congress. We emerge out of Congress a united face which is geared to take workers struggle forward. Provinces came to Congress with different positions - through a process of open debates we managed to reach consensus on most of the discussions. This shows political maturity and cohesion. I want to look at the most critical challenges we have to face in the next three years. The credentials presented at Congress showed that we have not increased our lost membership in the past three years. We must start an organising campaign to meet the target we have set for ourselves. We need to have a programme of empowering women. We have concentrated much resources on a few leaders who are empowered already. For me that is not enough if we want to build a strong women's layer in the union , here put any information that you think is important but there is no field for it, if there isnt remove the field
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- Date Issued: 2001-01
New Unity Movement Presidential Addresses
- Date: 2001-01
- Subjects: Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/32417 , vital:32102 , Bulk File 7
- Description: Presidential Addresses were delivered at each Annual conference of the New Unity Movement. This collection, though incomplete, has 18 items ranging from 1989 to 2013.
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- Date Issued: 2001-01
- Date: 2001-01
- Subjects: Government, Resistance to -- South Africa , South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/32417 , vital:32102 , Bulk File 7
- Description: Presidential Addresses were delivered at each Annual conference of the New Unity Movement. This collection, though incomplete, has 18 items ranging from 1989 to 2013.
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- Date Issued: 2001-01
Training course design for youth in correctional institutions in Cape Town
- Authors: Le Grange, Paul Vincent
- Date: 2001-01
- Subjects: Juvenile delinquents-Rehabilitation--South Africa--Cape Town , Conflict management--Study and teaching--South Africa--Cape Town , Diversion program
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/54993 , vital:48737
- Description: Thesis (M.Phil) -- Faculty of Arts, History and Political Studies, 2001 , Conflict resolution skills are essential skills to help to transform the lives of young people whose lives have been uprooted by a predominant culture of violence pervading their communities. May die or are seriously injured daily as territorial wars are waged in correctional institutions. Most of the youths come from violent communities and either experience or are exposed to excessive violence daily. They witness patterns of conflict resolutions that they eventually practice themselves many seldom encounter situations in which alternative approaches to conflict resolution are demostrated.Those who are aware of alternatives have not able to develop the necessary tools to personally implement those altenatives. Bosasa, as a relatively new secure care institution, faces not only an enormous task of avoiding the difficulties that so many correctional institutions have experienced, but also an opportunity denied to other institutions, introducing the life skills education programmes, was an important step towards achieving this goal.The situation is further compounded by the courts and is very uncertain.many of the cases for which these young people have been arrested,however usually take months before sentencing is passed.This creates an ideal opportunity for sustained life skills education intervention and helps the careworker to better understand these youth.
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- Date Issued: 2001-01
- Authors: Le Grange, Paul Vincent
- Date: 2001-01
- Subjects: Juvenile delinquents-Rehabilitation--South Africa--Cape Town , Conflict management--Study and teaching--South Africa--Cape Town , Diversion program
- Language: English
- Type: Master's theses , text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10948/54993 , vital:48737
- Description: Thesis (M.Phil) -- Faculty of Arts, History and Political Studies, 2001 , Conflict resolution skills are essential skills to help to transform the lives of young people whose lives have been uprooted by a predominant culture of violence pervading their communities. May die or are seriously injured daily as territorial wars are waged in correctional institutions. Most of the youths come from violent communities and either experience or are exposed to excessive violence daily. They witness patterns of conflict resolutions that they eventually practice themselves many seldom encounter situations in which alternative approaches to conflict resolution are demostrated.Those who are aware of alternatives have not able to develop the necessary tools to personally implement those altenatives. Bosasa, as a relatively new secure care institution, faces not only an enormous task of avoiding the difficulties that so many correctional institutions have experienced, but also an opportunity denied to other institutions, introducing the life skills education programmes, was an important step towards achieving this goal.The situation is further compounded by the courts and is very uncertain.many of the cases for which these young people have been arrested,however usually take months before sentencing is passed.This creates an ideal opportunity for sustained life skills education intervention and helps the careworker to better understand these youth.
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- Date Issued: 2001-01