AL3131 :: The COSATU Submission to TRC

Collection No:	AL3131
Title:	The COSATU Submission to TRC
Creator:	Inventory prepared by Ethel Kriger, September 2004
Origination:	TRC Archive Project
Publisher:	SAHA
Inclusive Dates:	1997
Bulk Dates:	1997
Extent:	0.1 linear metre (1 archival box) containing 1 file
Language:	English
Acquisition:	Accession Number: 04-011
Access Restrictions:	This collection is open for research
Use Restrictions:	Copyright restrictions may apply. See SAHA copyright statement for Use Restrictions.
Copyright:	Finding Aid: © The South African History Archive (SAHA)
Created:	17 August 2009
Abstract:	The submission of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was presented at the Institutional Hearing: Business and Labour. COSATU’s submission is premised on the conviction that Apartheid was more than a political system of institutionalized racism, but that the true character of the institutionalized racism was, in fact, racial capitalism. Hence in its submission COSATU argues that (white) business was a beneficiary of this system to the extent that it was not in its interest to oppose Apartheid, but indeed actively promoted this system at the expense of the black working classes.