Accounting Technicians Bursary Programme
- Authors: Association of Black Accountants of Southern Africa (ABASA)
- Date: Dec 1989
- Subjects: Association of Black Accountants of Southern Africa (ABASA)
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112995 , vital:33684
- Description: ABASA has pleasure in announcing the establishment of a new scholarship Programme for Accounting Technicians. The objective of the Accounting Technician Bursary Programme is to encourage black High School graduates throughout South Africa to become Accounting Technicians. There are about 60 Black Accounting Technicians out of approximately 3 500. An Accounting Techinicain is a member of the Institute of Accounting Technicians of Southern Africa. To qualify for membership of the Institute, a person must first complete a three year National Diploma Accounting at a Technikon and also work under the supervision of a qualified Accountant for 3 years. Members of the Institute are qualified for appointment as accounting officers to close corporations.
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- Date Issued: Dec 1989
Wage increases for goods transport workers
- Authors: COSATU, TGWU
- Date: Dec 1989
- Subjects: COSATU, TGWU
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/115546 , vital:34156
- Description: T&G has been sitting on the Goods Transport Industrial Council in the Transvaal for three years. T&G negotiates with the bosses’ organisation, the Motor Transport Owners Association (MTOA) once a year. About 500 goods transport companies belong to the MTOA and these bosses employ about 16 000 workers. T&G has about 6 000 goods transport members in the Transvaal. So it is important to negotiate a good deal for T&G workers but also for the many workers we have not organised at this point. There are many things that we negotiate around on the council. Here are some of the things we won this year: All goods transport workers who earn the council minimum wage will get a wage increase. Workers who earn below R118 a week will get a 19% increase and workers who earn above R118 will get a 16% increase. So for example, a general worker was getting R84.61 and will now get R100,64 a week. And a heavy duty driver was getting R130,18 and will now get R151. We also won a night out allowance increase. Drivers will get R20,40 a night and general workers R17,60. The sick benefit and holiday pay bonus now goes to all workers in the transport industry in Transvaal and not only to the drivers.
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- Date Issued: Dec 1989
Work in Progress Issue no.62/63 - Paths to Power, South Africa and Namibia face the future
- Authors: WIP
- Date: Dec 1989
- Subjects: WIP
- Language: English
- Type: text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/112045 , vital:33541
- Description: The political map of Southern Africa is being radically redrawn. The most vivid examples of this are the pre- independence elections in Namibia, giving the Namibian people their first opportunity to exercise control over their destiny, and in South Africa the release of the seven jailed ANC leaders by a president whose predecessor swore to let them rot in jail. Even in Angola major shifts are taking place below the surface while the war drags on. Savimbi’s fighters still receive weaponry from their traditional allies, but their Western support is no longer a certainty. Establishment American voices have, for the first time, been raised against his brutal tactics. The East-West, capitalist-communist rivalries that have fostered the 14-year Angolan war are everywhere crumbling. This has been graphically symbolised by the breaching of the Berlin Wall. And as the bricks fall at the Brandenburg Gate, they take with them decades of conventional wisdoms on both sides of the Wall. In Eastern Europe, the idea that socialist economics are an adequate alternative to political democracy has been destroyed, probably permanently. For socialists, the challenge now is to demonstrate that democracy is not, as their foes maintain, the exclusive preserve of capitalist economics. The massive changes in Eastern Europe have not left the West unaffected. And they have for the first time wrought a convergence of United States and Soviet opinion on South Africa that has impacted powerfully on Pretoria. Under FW de Klerk the National Party is now hard at work attempting to restructure both the material conditions under which the process of change takes place and the economics of the society its successors will inherit. Facing a reviving and increasingly confident opposition, the National Party is now led by politicians who recognise that no minority has ever successfully held on to power without facing a revolution. Its attempts at social engineering continue both in the bantustans and in the urban areas, where concessions on group areas serve to reinforce rather than eradicate the physical separation of communities of different races - strengthening De Klerk’s own thrust for a post-apartheid society rooted in'groups' and racial separation. Economically, too, reinforcement of the existing order is underway. Deregulation and privatisation are designed not so much to 'free' the economy, but to weaken the trade union movement in the short term and, in the long term, to entrench capitalist interests so deeply that whoever inherits political power is capable of no more real a transformation than changing the colour of parliament. Nor has De Klerk abandoned his government's traditional policy of divide and rule. Today he is seeking to force a divison between between the military formations of the ANC and what he hopes will become a 'political' ANC, ideally coalesced around the released seven and Nelson Mandela. Within the opposition, however, a significant momentum is developing towards greater rather than lesser unity - both between the ANC and its internal allies and more generally, among the majority of antiapartheid and democratic forces. Despite this, the democratic movement would be foolhardy to ignore the lessons of Namibia. The first of these is that the simple assertion by the popular movements of their representivity is not in itself a guarantee of overwhelming support. Secondly - and this is a message De Klerk’s strategists will have received and understood - that, through the DTA, Pretoria has for the first time succeeded in creating an organisation capable of winning sufficient legitimacy to gain the votes of almost one in three Namibians. * A steady increase in inflation has forced us, reluctantly, to increase the price of WIP - an increase so far limited to subscriptions. Full details are published on the inside back cover of this edition. For this new annual rate, however, subscribers will be getting eight editions rather than the current six - a first step, we hope, to WIP becoming a monthly journal.
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- Date Issued: Dec 1989