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Unions: a need to get back to first principles

February 4, 2013

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Forty years ago the modern union moveent in SA was born. Then the demands, including pay and conditions, amounted to one word: democracy. But a democracy that went well beyond the veneer of electoral politics, of the legalistic notion of rich and poor being equal.

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Cape Town, South Africa-based journalist commentator and author specialising in political and economic analysis and labour matters.

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