National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa explained

NAPTOSA
Location Country:	South Africa
Members:	45,000 ^[1]
Full Name:	National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa
Founded:	1 November 1991
Headquarters:	Pretoria, South Africa
Key People:	Nkosiphendule Ntantala, president Basil Manuel, general secretary
Website:	www.naptosa.org.za

The National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa (NAPTOSA) is a professional organisation of teachers in South Africa. It is headquartered in Pretoria, South Africa.

History

The union was founded in 1991 as a federation. By 1997, it included the following unions:^[2]

• African Teachers' Association of South Africa
• National Union of Educators
• Professional Educators' Union
• Transvaal Association of Teachers
• Transvaal Teachers' Association

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.

External links

• NAPTOSA

Notes and References

1. Education Labour Relations Council, 31 August 2011, Vote Weights for the Trade Unions that are Parties to Council
2. Book: Zengele . Vincent Thulani . THE INVOLVEMENT OF TEACHER UNIONS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EMPLOYMENT OF EDUCATORS’ ACT 76 OF 1998 . 2009 . University of South Africa . Pretoria . 27 April 2021.