DITSELA

DITSELA (the Development Institute for Training, Support and Education for Labour), or the DITSELA Workers' Education Institute is a union education organisation in South Africa. It was founded in 1996 by two of the then-largest union federations in South Africa, the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) to help build a strong trade union movement.^[1] It was subsequently joined by the National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU). It has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The acronym is a pun: ditsela also means 'pathways' in Sesotho, leading to the institute's slogan of 'Pathways to a Strong Labour Movement'. It was intended to consolidate the existing union education programmes, and help the unions develop their own education programmes. ^[2] It was described in 2007 by an International Labour Organization as the 'largest union education institute in Africa'. ^[3] Its main funder, however, is not the unions but the state.^[4]

References

^ DITSELA, 'Who We Are', http://ditsela.org.za/About-Us/Who-are-we Archived 2018-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
^ DITSELA, 'National Education Programme', http://ditsela.org.za/Our-Work/National-Programme Archived 2018-12-04 at the Wayback Machine
^ International Labour Organization - Bureau for Workers’ Activities, 2007, 'The Role of Trade Unions in Workers’ Education: The Key to Trade Union Capacity Building', background paper for International Workers’ Symposium, Geneva, 8–12 October 2007, section 3.1.10, online at https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---actrav/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_112434.pdf
^ International Labour Organization - Bureau for Workers’ Activities, 2007, 'The Role of Trade Unions in Workers’ Education: The Key to Trade Union Capacity Building', background paper for International Workers’ Symposium, Geneva, 8–12 October 2007, section 3.1.10, online at https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---actrav/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_112434.pdf

[1] DITSELA, 'Who We Are', http://ditsela.org.za/About-Us/Who-are-we Archived 2018-12-04 at the Wayback Machine

[2] DITSELA, 'National Education Programme', http://ditsela.org.za/Our-Work/National-Programme Archived 2018-12-04 at the Wayback Machine

[3] International Labour Organization - Bureau for Workers’ Activities, 2007, 'The Role of Trade Unions in Workers’ Education: The Key to Trade Union Capacity Building', background paper for International Workers’ Symposium, Geneva, 8–12 October 2007, section 3.1.10, online at https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---actrav/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_112434.pdf

[4] International Labour Organization - Bureau for Workers’ Activities, 2007, 'The Role of Trade Unions in Workers’ Education: The Key to Trade Union Capacity Building', background paper for International Workers’ Symposium, Geneva, 8–12 October 2007, section 3.1.10, online at https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_dialogue/---actrav/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_112434.pdf

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