Add to ORKGThe teachers ’ strike against low salaries and poor working conditions in 2010 invoked memories of the 1980s and 1990s popular resistance against the apartheid government. The apartheid government invoked the state of emergency and outlawed any form of protest or demonstrations. The 1996 Constitution of the Republic of South Africa recognises peaceful demonstration as a constitutional right and offers processes to resolve conflicts peacefully. This begs the question: why did teachers embark on violent strikes instead of dialogue? Why did they turn against the government at the centre of the tripartite alliance? This article argues that violent strikes are a continuation of a culture of militancy dating back to the armed-struggle in the 1980...
Teachers in the Western Cape joined the SADTU strike in 1993 to fight the retrenchment of teachers. ...
Protest action is not a new phenomenon in democratic South Africa. In the 1980s and 1990s, many stay...
In this article we ask whether we can speak of violence and scapegoating as being part of the cultur...
While the South African Constitution enshrines both children’s right to a basic education and teache...
In recent years, schools have borne the brunt of protesters’ frustrations with the lack of access ...
This article focuses on providing new insights into the nature of public opinion about protest actio...
During the past few months, we experienced the mass mobilisation of 70 000 teachers, nationally. Thi...
Published ArticleThe teachers' salary strike, which occurs almost annually in South Africa, is so wi...
Strike and protest activity at South African universities continues to be prevalent nearly two decad...
Developments in South African labour legislation since the inception of the new democracy indicate s...
In recent years, schools have borne the brunt of protesters’ frustrations with the lack of ac...
A research report For The School of Education, University of Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment o...
Just over twenty-three years ago, the right to strike or protest received an explicit constitutional...
Developments in South African labour legislation since the inception of the new democracy indicate ...
This article focuses on providing new insights into the nature of public opinion about protest actio...
Teachers in the Western Cape joined the SADTU strike in 1993 to fight the retrenchment of teachers. ...
Protest action is not a new phenomenon in democratic South Africa. In the 1980s and 1990s, many stay...
In this article we ask whether we can speak of violence and scapegoating as being part of the cultur...
While the South African Constitution enshrines both children’s right to a basic education and teache...
In recent years, schools have borne the brunt of protesters’ frustrations with the lack of access ...
This article focuses on providing new insights into the nature of public opinion about protest actio...
During the past few months, we experienced the mass mobilisation of 70 000 teachers, nationally. Thi...
Published ArticleThe teachers' salary strike, which occurs almost annually in South Africa, is so wi...
Strike and protest activity at South African universities continues to be prevalent nearly two decad...
Developments in South African labour legislation since the inception of the new democracy indicate s...
In recent years, schools have borne the brunt of protesters’ frustrations with the lack of ac...
A research report For The School of Education, University of Witwatersrand, in partial fulfilment o...
Just over twenty-three years ago, the right to strike or protest received an explicit constitutional...
Developments in South African labour legislation since the inception of the new democracy indicate ...
This article focuses on providing new insights into the nature of public opinion about protest actio...
Teachers in the Western Cape joined the SADTU strike in 1993 to fight the retrenchment of teachers. ...
Protest action is not a new phenomenon in democratic South Africa. In the 1980s and 1990s, many stay...
In this article we ask whether we can speak of violence and scapegoating as being part of the cultur...