Clothing Sub Sector

"Clothing Sub Sector" without in any way limiting the ordinary meaning of the expression, means the sub-sector in which employers and employees are associated for the making in whole or in part of all classes of ladies, men’s and children’s outer and undergarments, including uniforms, protective garments, nightwear, knitwear, headwear, helmets, caps, stitched utility hats, blocked or trimmed and/or modelled hats including the alteration or repair thereof, (except alterations done incidentally to the sale by retail of a hat in a shop), ties, scarves, hosiery, socks, mittens, gloves, suspenders, brasiers, collars, foundation garments, shirts, belts, braces, bags, umbrellas, handkerchiefs, linen and including the making of zips, buttons, hangers and badges for garments or the manufacture in whole or in part of all classes of garments to the order of any Government Department, Provincial Administration, the South African Transport Services and/or Local Authorities and all other classes of garments whether made from knitted, woven or non-woven fabric or any other material and includes any process in or branches of manufacture and all operations incidental thereto or consequent thereon, comprising inter alia, the designing and making of patterns, marking-in, cutting or chopping-out, machining, cleaning, finishing, embroidery and pressing whether or not some or all of such operations are performed in establishments which make such garments and includes bespoke tailoring or bespoke dressmaking and the manufacture of wearing apparel made from furs and pelts and the making of tailored outer garments for the execution of special measure orders from dealers whose customers’ measurements are taken by or on the responsibility of such dealers as well as knitted garments for day or nightwear (including fully fashioned garments and/or any part thereof) by means of a knitting process on circular, flat or fully-fashioned machinery, which shall include the marking-in or cutting of such garments and/or all succeeding processes of operations performed in connection therewith including the making up of garments from knitted fabric in the establishment in which the said fabric was knitted.

Textiles Sub Sector

"Textiles Sub Sector" means the manufacture in whole or in part of all classes of textile products including blankets, blanketing, bedding, travelling rugs, shawls, sheeting, whether plain, raised, dyed or printed or treated; duck-webbing, interlinings, bias binding and tapes whether elasticated or not, flocks, foam, wadding or padding including shoulder padding, dusters, feather dusters, towels and towelling; all classes of fabric trimmings including bows, rosettes, tassels, frills and similar finishings; lace, crocheted fabrics and embroidery; all Manchester goods and curtaining; all classes of fabrics whether knitted, woven or made by any other process whatsoever; all types of worsted products; all classes of non-woven products including but not limited to flock, felt, underfelt, wadding and stitch-bonded, spun-bonded, chemically-bonded and thermobonded textile fibres; yarns or thread spun from natural or synthetic fibre or any combination or blend thereof; automotive textile goods including seat covers, safety belts and upholstering; all classes of matting, mats, cord, ropes, twine, nets and netting including braided and plaited packings made of fibres and lubricants but excluding ropes, cables and mats manufactured from wire; all classes of bag manufacture; all braided and plaited products including shoe laces; all classes of carpets, rugs, carpet tiles and carpeting; all types of industrial/technical textiles including, but not limited to, woven and/or yarns such as: tyre-cord, belting, hose, tank fabrics, conveyor belts, textiles used to reinforce plastics, mining and civil engineering textiles like separation, drainage and reinforcement materials, mine props, backfill fabrics, ventilation curtains, blast barricades, textiles used in agriculture/horticulture, like those for weed control, hail and frost protection, early crop ripening, bags for fertilisers/produce, textiles for tents, tarpaulins, awnings, furnishings, footwear, automotive trim, luggage, sail cloth, airbags, spinnakers, parachutes, hot air balloons, print screens, paper felts, arrestor fabrics, medical textiles like blood filters, membranes, bandages, cotton wool, lints, gauze, swabs, surgical dressing, and sanitary towels, fabrics used to filter gas or liquids, fabrics used for protective garments such as breathable fabrics, flame proof fabrics, acid proof fabrics, bullet proof fabrics, brake and clutch linings, gland packings, and seals; and including workers engaged either wholly or partly in cotton ginning, fibre working, carding, spinning, winding, twisting, drawing-in, warping, weaving, knitting, plaiting, braiding, dyeing, bleaching, printing or finishing, raising, cleaning of any textile products or in rag picking, cutting, combing, blending, mixing or weighing of waste yarns and fabrics.

"Wool/Mohair Processing Generic Sector" means the washing, cleaning, scouring, blending andlor processing in any way whatsoever of raw wool, and/or mohair and/or any other animal fibre; and includes the making of tops.

"Knitting Generic Sector" means the generic sector in which employers and their employees are associated for the purpose of manufacturing hosiery, knitted fabric, other knitted clothing and miscellaneous knitted products on circular, flat or fully fashioned machinery and includes the making up of garments from knitted fabrics in the establishment in which the said fabric was knitted; and further includes all operations incidental to or consequent upon such operations and manufacture, including sale delivery, distribution, storage and administration.

"Canvas and Ropeworking Generic Sector" means the generic sector in which employers and employees are associated for:

"Laundry, Dry-cleaning & Dyeing Generic Sector" shall mean the generic sector carried on in establishments in which employers and employees are associated for the purpose of laundering, washing, cleaning, bleaching or dyeing of all types of woven, non-woven, spun, knitted or crocheted fabrics; or articles made from such fabrics; (including upholstery or upholstered articles), to the order of customers, and shall include depots and/or vehicles where such articles are received in order to be laundered, cleaned, bleached or dyed, and includes any other operations incidental thereto or consequent thereon.

Footwear and Leather Sub Sector

"Footwear and Leather Sub Sector" means the sub-sector in which employers and employees are associated—

Provided that paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) shall not be construed to include—

Provided further that the word "plastic" as contained in paragraph (v) means any of the group materials which consists of or contains as an essential ingredient an organic substance of a large molecular mass and which while solid in the finished state, at some stage in its manufacture has been or can be forced i.e. cast, calendered, extruded or moulded, into various shapes by flow, usually through the application, singly or together, of heat and pressure.

Provided that, for the purposes of subparagraphs (a) to (c), "hides and skins" includes the following: Pelts with or without the fur on; sheepskins with or without the wool on; game and goatskins with or without the hair on: all types of reptile skins, and bird skins with or without the feathers on.