- PUTCO
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name = PUTCO
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founded = 1945 by Jack Bird Barregar
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service_area =Gauteng
service_type =Public Transit
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website = [http://www.putco.co.za http://www.putco.co.za] The Public Utility Transport Corporation of provides commuter bus services inGauteng and western parts ofMpumalanga .History
During the
apartheid era PUTCO was the main "blacks only" bus transport company and often seen as an icon of the oppression. The company were therefor often targeted in attacks and boycott actions. [cite web|url=http://www.marxistsfr.org/history/etol/writers/callinicos/1976/07/soweto.htm|title=The Soweto Uprising|last=Callinicos|first=Alex|date=1976-08|publisher=Maxist Internet Archive|accessdate=2008-08-24]On September 5, 1984 a PUTCO bus was torched with the aid of a petrol bomb after PUTCO employees did not participate in a national anti-apartheid strike. Two of the attackers were granted
amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 2001 for their actions on the day, the third attacker was already deceased. [cite web|url=http://www.doj.gov.za/trc/decisions/2001/ac21074.htm|title=Application in terms of section 18 of the Promotion of National Unity and Reconciliation Act|date=2001-02-26|publisher=Truth and Reconciliation Commission|accessdate=2008-08-24]A PUTCO bus was also targeted and shot at by members of right wing movements in
South Africa in October 1990. [cite web|url=http://www.justice.gov.za/trc/media/1996/9608/s960813m.htm|title=Bus attack victims' families oppose amnesty applications|date=1996-08-13|publisher= South African Press Association|accessdate=2008-08-24]A strike by around 300 PUTCO employees in 1972 lead to the creation of the Transport and Allied Workers Union. [cite web|url=http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/congress/sactu/wff2.htm|title=Non-Racial Trade Unionism in Historical Perspective|date=1981|work=Working For Freedom. Black trade union development in South Africa throughout the 1970s|publisher=South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)|accessdate=2008-08-24]
ee also
References
External links
* [http://www.putco.co.za Official PUTCO website]
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