SA embassy won’t recognise anti-apartheid union

THE South African embassy in Ireland is refusing to recognise the trade union which fought to end the apartheid system through the Dunnes Stores strike.

Today is the 20th anniversary of the strike, which started with Dunnes Stores workers refusing to handle South African goods because their union at the time, IDATU, was opposed to the apartheid system.

The strike lasted almost three years until the Irish Government imposed a ban on the importation of South African goods here.