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/