‘The Future is in the Hands of the Workers’: a history of FOSATU

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Notes

1. Such as Debbie Bonnin and Ari Sitas, ‘Lessons from the Sarmcol strike’ (In Cobbett and Cohen 1988, 42–58); Steen-Stenersen, ‘Ideologies and strategies of certain Fosatu unions and certain employers’ (1983); Jon Lewis, ‘South African labor history: a historiographical assessment’ (In Brown 1991, 165–82) and the rather opinionated Power! Black workers, their unions and the struggle for freedom in South Africa by Denis Macshane, Martin Plaut and David Ward (1984).

2. At www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/docs/fosatu/fosatu.pdf.

3. ‘Fosatu Panel Discussion’ 26 May 2009, Wits: www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/docs/fosatu/transcript11.doc.

4. Ten years of Staffrider, 1978-1988 (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1988): this collection also has ‘Fosatu : “son of victory”’ by M. Mokhawane. Qabula's poem is also in Southern African Journal for Folklore Studies 16: 87–8, 2006.

5. See FOSATU worker choirs ( 1984/5) sound recording.

6. Alec Erwin, ‘Fosatu: its policies and objectives’ Industrial Relations Journal of South Africa 1: 2 (Erwin 1981, 55–60) and, in the same journal, Joe Foster's ‘The workers' struggle: where does FOSATU stand’ 2: 3, (Foster 1982a, 40–51).

7. See Hemson et al.'s footnote in SADET (2006, 243), and J. Sithole, ‘Contestations over knowledge production or ideological bullying?: A response to Legassick on the workers' movement’ Kronos 62, 35, 2009.

8. Such as The workers struggle: where does FOSATU stand? (Foster 1982b); This is reproduced in Review of African Political Economy, (Foster 1982c), and in South African Labour Bulletin (Foster 1982d); see also the retrospective ‘The workers' struggle': a South African text revisited’ by Martin Plaut, Review of African Political Economy 96, 2003: 305–13.

9. ‘Speech Given By Professor Philip Bonner at Historical Papers Archives Unit Book Launch of “The Future is in the Hands of the Workers”: A History Of FOSATU, 17 February 2011’, online at http://www.historicalpapers.wits.ac.za/docs/fosatu/BonnerspeechFosatuBookLaunch.pdf

10. The film Hlanganani: A short history of Cosatu (1991) has some material on FOSATU.