Organising in the Ciskei: You can’t operate in a vacuum: Ciskei industrialist speak Ciskei’s Labour Decree :Negotiate with NEHAWU!: the battle for public sector unionism

Workers celebrated the overthrow of Ciskei dictator Lennox Sebe with a stayaway. Since then trade unions have made rapid progress. One reason is that unionist and activists in the Dimbaza Workers Council were organising the factories long before the coup, as Labour Bulletin found out when we visited Ciskei in September. Karl von Holdt reports.