ABET - Adult Basic Education and Training
APDUSA - African People's Democratic Union of Southern Africa
CAC - Coloured Advisory Council
CAPS - Curriculum Assessments Policy Statements
CASS - Continuous Assessment
CDE - Centre for Development and Enterprise
CODESA - Convention for a Democratic South Africa
CRC - Coloured Representative Council
CTMWA - Cape Town Municipal Workers' Association
CTPA - Cape Teachers' Professional Association
ELRC - Education Labour Relations Council
ESST - Educational Support Services Trust
FET - Further Education and Training
GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Gear - Growth, Employment and Redistribution
IMF - International Monetary Fund
Nedlac - National Economic Development and Labour Council
Nepad - New Partnership for Africa's Development
NEPI - National Education Policy Investigation
NEUM - Non-European Unity Movement
NQF - National Qualifications Framework
NUM - New Unity Movement
NUPSAW - National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers
OBE - Outcomes-Based Education
RDP - Reconstruction and Development Programme
TIMSS - Third International Maths and Science Study
TLSA - Teachers' League of South Africa
UDUSA - Union of Democratic University Staff Associations
USSASA - United Schools Sports Association of South Africa
UWC - University of the Western Cape
WB - World Bank
Formed in 1943, the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM) was a united front comprising of the All African Convention (AAC), ANTI Coloured Affairs Department (Anti-CAD) and the Anti-Segregation Council (ASC). Affiliated to the NEUM were The Teachers League of South Africa (TLSA), The Cape African Teachers Association (CATA), and the Society of Young Africans (SOYA).
Key policies and principles of NEUM constituted:
• The Ten Point Programme of minimum demands
• Policy of non-racialism
• Policy of non-collaboration and the boycott as a weapon of
struggle
• Policy of anti-imperialism
• Emphasis on importance of theory and principled approach to
struggle.
NEUM publications, such as the Ten Point Programme, Declaration to the People of South Africa and Declaration to the People of the World, The Torch Newspaper, as well as pamphlets, conference papers and Bulletins were used as a vehicle to propagate these policies and principles. A number of these publications are contained in this collection.
By 1958 the NEUM had split into two sections:
• The African Peoples Democratic Union of South Africa
(APDUSA)
was formed in 1961 under the leadership of IB Tabata who
went into exile and formed the Unity Movement of South Africa
(UMSA).
• Supporters of the leadership of the second section continued
operating in organisations like the TLSA, the Federation of
Cape Civic Associations (FCCA), a number of Educational
Fellowships and in the South African Council on Sport
(SACOS).
As the result of state repression NEUM ceased to exist by the 1960’s by which time nearly the entire leadership and its affiliates, including the editor of the Torch newspaper, were banned under the Suppression of Communism Act.
The New Unity Movement (NUM) was established in 1985 as the successor of NEUM, following a reconciliation between the two opposing sections in the 1980s. NUM continues to be dedicated and committed to the NEUM founding principles and policies.
Source: http://www.newunitymovement.org.za/