B&S Engineering workers being addressed in a meeting in Brits church hall as part of a strike action. The pay dispute and resulting strike involving 265 workers at B&S engineering factory in Brits lasted a year and the workers met in a local church hall throughout the period.

B&S Engineering workers being addressed in a meeting in Brits church hall as part of a strike action. The pay dispute and resulting strike involving 265 workers at B&S engineering factory in Brits lasted a year and the workers met in a local church hall throughout the period.

B&S Engineering workers being addressed in a meeting in Brits church hall as part of strike action. The pay dispute and resulting strike involving 265 workers at B&S engineering factory in Brits lasted a year and the workers met in a local church hall.

Management chases Journalists away and try to disperse a picket line which took place at the CNA Warehouse in Rossburgh near Durban. Workers were picketing over a wage dispute between CNA and the Commercial and Catering Allied Workers Union of South Africa. (CCAWUSA)

Management try to disperse workers picketing over a wage dispute between CNA and the Commercial and Catering Allied Workers Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA) in Durban.

Union officials including Jay Naidoo and strikers along a fence, Durban. 1986.

Mineworker who was short during NUM strike at Western Areas gold mine recovering in a clinic.

Backlog of boxes not being loaded onto trains due to South African Railway and Harbour Workers Union (SARHWU) strike in March and April 1987

Striking railways workers sign back on to work after the end of the biggest (about 18000 workers), and longest (3 months) strike in the history of South African public service. The victory for members of the S.A. Harbour and the Railway Workers Union came after months of police harassment and conflict which left a number of workers dead and many detained. Johannesburg 11 June 1987.