National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa | |
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| Founded | 1 November 1991 |
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| Headquarters | Pretoria, South Africa |
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Members | 55,000 [1] |
Key people | Basil Manuel, General Secretary Thabo Manne, President |
| Website | www.naptosa.org.za |
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The union was founded in 1991 as a federation. By 1997, it included the following unions: [2]
On 1 November 2006, NAPTOSA was reconstituted as a single, unitary, trade union. The Professional Educators' Union opted to remain independent, but NAPTOSA works with it, the Natal Association of Teachers' Unions and the Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysers Unie in the Combined Trade Unions, for the purpose of recognition by the Education Labour Relations Chamber.
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