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| Title: | Nursing in South Africa: Black Women Workers Organize |
| Author: | Lubanga, Nonceba |
| Book title: | Women and Health in Africa |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Pages: | 51-78 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | trade unions strikes health personnel Labor and Employment Health, Nutrition, and Medicine Ethnic and Race Relations organizations |
| Abstract: | This chapter traces the combative history of black nurses' organizations under apartheid in South Africa. Transcriptions of interviews with eyewitnesses enliven the author's account of the strikes organized by black nurses to improve patient care and their own working conditions. In 1913, registered white nurses formed the voluntary and exclusive South African Trained Nurses Association (SATNA). Since the African trained nurse could not be a part of this association, the African nurses decided as early as the 1920s to form their own organization, the Bantu Nurses Association (BNA). Under the 1944 Nursing Act no. 45, the South African Nursing Association (SANA) replaced SATNA as the professional association to which all registered nurses, student nurses and midwives, irrespective of colour, were now compelled to belong. SANA developed a highly bureaucratic structure that stifled progress. Nurses continued to express their discontent in the form of strikes despite the constraints laid down by SANA. The author discusses the Victoria Hospital Strike of 1949, the 1957 Nursing Act (which made distinctions along racial lines), the 1958 Victoria Hospital Nurses Strike, nurses' struggles from the 1960s to the 1980s, and the 1985 Baragwanath Hospital Strike. Note (p. 222). |
