The National Professional Teachers' Organisation of South Africa (NAPTOSA) is a professional organisation of teachers in

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. It is headquartered in

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History

The union was founded in 1991 as a federation. By 1997, it included the following unions: * African Teachers' Association of South Africa *

National Union of Educators The National Union of Educators (NUE) was a trade union representing education workers in South Africa. The union was founded in 1997, when the South African Teachers' Association merged with the Transvaal Teachers' Association and the Transvaal ...

Professional Educators' Union The Professional Educators' Union (PEU) is a trade union representing education workers in South Africa. The union was founded in 1919, when the Northern Transvaal Native Teachers' Association merged with the Southern Transvaal Native Teachers' A ...

* 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 The Suid-Afrikaanse Onderwysers Unie (SAOU), sometimes translated as the South African Teachers' Union, is a trade union representing principally Afrikaans-speaking teachers in South Africa. The union was founded in 1905 to represent Afrikaans-sp ...

in the Combined Trade Unions, for the purpose of recognition by the Education Labour Relations Chamber.

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